1SS(8)                       System Manager's Manual                      SS(8)
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NAME

6       ss - another utility to investigate sockets
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SYNOPSIS

9       ss [options] [ FILTER ]
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DESCRIPTION

12       ss  is  used  to  dump socket statistics. It allows showing information
13       similar to netstat.  It can display more  TCP  and  state  informations
14       than other tools.
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OPTIONS

18       These  programs  follow  the  usual  GNU command line syntax, with long
19       options starting with two  dashes  (`-').   A  summary  of  options  is
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22       -h, --help
23              Show summary of options.
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25       -V, --version
26              Output version information.
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28       -n, --numeric
29              Do now try to resolve service names.
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31       -r, --resolve
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34       -a, --all
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37       -l, --listening
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40       -o, --options
41              Show timer information.
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43       -e, --extended
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46       -m, --memory
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49       -p, --processes
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52       -i, --info
53              Show internal TCP information.
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55       -s, --summary
56              Print  summary  statistics.  This  option  does not parse socket
57              lists obtaining summary from various sources. It is useful  when
58              amount  of  sockets  is  so  huge  that parsing /proc/net/tcp is
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61       -4, --ipv4
62              Display only IP version 4 sockets (alias for -f inet).
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64       -6, --ipv6
65              Display only IP version 6 sockets (alias for -f inet6).
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67       -0, --packet
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70       -t, --tcp
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79       -w, --raw
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82       -x, --unix
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85       -f FAMILY, --family=FAMILY
86              Display sockets of type FAMILY.  Currently the  following  fami‐
87              lies are supported: unix, inet, inet6, link, netlink.
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89       -A QUERY, --query=QUERY
90              List  of socket tables to dump, separated by commas. The follow‐
91              ing identifiers are understood: all, inet, tcp, udp, raw,  unix,
92              packet,    netlink,    unix_dgram,    unix_stream,   packet_raw,
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95       -D FILE
96              Do not display anything, just dump  raw  information  about  TCP
97              sockets  to  FILE after applying filters. If FILE is - stdout is
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100       -F FILE, --filter=FILE
101              Read filter information from FILE.  Each line of FILE is  inter‐
102              preted  like  single  command line option. If FILE is - stdin is
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105       FILTER := [ state TCP-STATE ] [ EXPRESSION ]
106              Please take a look at the official documentation (Debian package
107              iproute-doc) for details regarding filters.
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USAGE EXAMPLES

110       ss -t -a
111              Display all TCP sockets.
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113       ss -u -a
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116       ss -o state established '( dport = :ssh or sport = :ssh )'
117              Display all established ssh connections.
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119       ss -x src /tmp/.X11-unix/*
120              Find all local processes connected to X server.
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122       ss  -o  state  fin-wait-1  '(  sport  =  :http or sport = :https )' dst
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124              List all the tcp sockets in state FIN-WAIT-1 for our  apache  to
125              network 193.233.7/24 and look at their timers.
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SEE ALSO

128       ip(8), /usr/share/doc/iproute-doc-2.6.35/ss.ps (package iproute-doc)
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AUTHOR

131       ss was written by Alexey Kuznetosv, <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>.
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133       This  manual page was written by Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> for the
134       Debian project (but may be used by others).
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