Commands by mramos (1)

  • Display connections histogram

    Displays a connection histogram of active tcp connections. Works even better under an alias. Thanks @Areis1 for sharing this one.


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    netstat -an | grep ESTABLISHED | awk '\''{print $5}'\'' | awk -F: '\''{print $1}'\'' | sort | uniq -c | awk '\''{ printf("%s\t%s\t",$2,$1); for (i = 0; i < $1; i++) {printf("*")}; print ""}'\''
    mramos · 2010-07-09 00:25:45 2

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