Show apps that use internet connection at the moment.

netstat -lantp | grep -i establ | awk -F/ '{print $2}' | uniq | sort
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)?
Sample Output
java          
pidgin         
pidgin         
pidgin         
pidgin         
pidgin         
thunderbird-b 
thunderbird-b 
thunderbird-b 
thunderbird-b 

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By: ktoso
2009-09-19 13:54:36

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You should sort it before you use uniq, because uniq looks only at each line and its neighbors to catch duplicates.
HarimaKenji · 868 weeks and 3 days ago
Hah, such simple solution! Thanks for the tip.
ktoso · 868 weeks and 3 days ago
Just invert: | sort | uniq , |uniq |sort , will work fine!! for the uniq command works, the repeated word have to be one after the other, for that reason use the sort command, for put words that way.
andregyn62 · 557 weeks ago

What do you think?

Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?

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