Show List of Listening Services in Linux using netstat

To be able to list for available service which is listening on Linux operating system distribution, it can be done by executing the appropriate command executed in any command line interface or terminal as long as it is being recognized by the shell.

The most popular command which can be used is ‘netstat’. The other one is by using ‘ss’. While netstat is more general on printing network connections, routing tables, interface statistics, etc, on the other hand ss is more specifically intended as a utility to investigate sockets.

In this article, we will discuss ‘netstat’ command usage with specific parameter. Below are theparameter usage passed to netstat command . First of all, the a netstat executed command in command line interface is typed as follow :

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