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Show apps that use internet connection at the moment. (Multi-Language)

Terminal - Show apps that use internet connection at the moment. (Multi-Language)
lsof -P -i -n
2009-09-19 18:28:48
User: OJM
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Show apps that use internet connection at the moment. (Multi-Language)
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Alternatives

There are 2 alternatives - vote for the best!

Terminal - Alternatives
ss -p
2009-09-19 21:55:01
User: Escher
Tags: bash grep netstat internet ss
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Show apps that use internet connection at the moment. (Multi-Language)

for one line per process:

ss -p | cat

for established sockets only:

ss -p | grep STA

for just process names:

ss -p | cut -f2 -sd\"

or

ss -p | grep STA | cut -f2 -d\"
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lsof -P -i -n | cut -f 1 -d " "| uniq | tail -n +2
2009-09-19 21:23:54
User: edo
Functions: cut tail uniq
Tags: bash grep lsof internet
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Show apps that use internet connection at the moment.

show only the name of the apps that are using internet

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netstat -lantp | grep -i stab | awk -F/ '{print $2}' | sort | uniq
2009-09-19 14:54:31
User: ProMole
Functions: awk grep netstat sort
Tags: bash grep netstat internet
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Show apps that use internet connection at the moment. (Multi-Language)

Show apps that use internet connection at the moment.

Can be used to discover what programms create internet traffic. Skip the part after awk to get more details, though it will not work showing only unique processes.

This version will work with other languages such as Spanish and Portuguese, if the word for "ESTABLISHED" still contain the fragment "STAB"(e.g. "ESTABELECIDO")

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netstat -lantp | grep -i establ | awk -F/ '{print $2}' | sort | uniq
2009-09-19 14:42:31
User: HarimaKenji
Functions: awk grep netstat sort
Tags: bash grep netstat internet
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Show apps that use internet connection at the moment.

This corrects duplicate output from the previous command.

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netstat -lantp | grep -i establ | awk -F/ '{print $2}' | uniq | sort
2009-09-19 13:54:36
User: ktoso
Functions: awk grep netstat uniq
Tags: bash grep netstat internet
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Show apps that use internet connection at the moment.

Can be used to discover what programms create internet traffic. Skip the part after awk to get more details.

Has anyone an idea why the uniq doesn't work propperly here (see sample output)?

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What others think

slightly shorter is 'lsof -nPi', and for less output use:

lsof -nPi -F c

lsof -nPi | cut -f1 -d" " | sort -u

Comment by Escher 191 weeks and 4 days ago

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