This post is the beginning of a series I’d tag nlc to talk about linux commands that I come across.
A simpler man page for myself of my own words, minus the bells and whistles of the many options you come across in the man pages without almost ever using.
Netstat
Short for network status, this command when run without options netstat , can get carried away. Displaying all incoming and outgoing network requests at a go. This can be daunting and one may easily get lost trying to sift through all that data.
Piping | the data through less will make it easier for you to peruse and understand where your data is going, from what application and from what point data is being returned.
eg.
netstat -nr | less
Using the - nr option, gives you access to your routing table in number format, i.e shows you the network address.