• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    As a German, it's always fun to use the ss command. The SS was the organization that did most of the genocide under Hitler. That's a bad name around here, so people are always surprised that a command is named that.

    But what's even more fun is that we can memorize the standard set of flags as -tulpn, because it's basically spelled+pronounced like "Tulpen", which is German for tulips.

    So, occasionally I get to tell people to type "SS-tulips" into their terminal and it always confuses the hell out of them. 🙃

    • Blizzard@lemmy.zip
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      5 months ago

      And it's used for killing... processes.

      On a separate note, I wish such tutorials explained what the commands are abbreviations of. Would make it easier to remember.

    • barkingspiders@infosec.pub
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      5 months ago

      ss -tulpn was a welcome find for me. I have it memorized for netstat and dislike always having to install it on a new box, very handy tool

  • atyaz [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    I will simply Google this next time I need it