ss¶

"ss - another utility to investigate sockets" - man ss

This tool shows all sockets, not just networking sockets.

Examples¶

Options can be concatenated, so ss -t -n -l -p can be ss -tnlp

Show all established connections, don't resolve service names¶

ss -n

Show all listening sockets¶

ss -l

Display all TCP sockets¶

ss -t -a

Show ipv4 listening sockets sorted by port¶

ss -4 -ltn | sort -k2 -t: -n

Show ssh connections¶

ss -at '( sport = :ssh or dport = :ssh )'

Show ipv4 sockets in a particular state¶

ss -t4 state time-wait

Show the processes for listening ipv4 sockets¶

ss -lt4p