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Add an example of a couple of the most common was to use netstat. The goal is to help beginners or infrequent users of the tool remember the syntax. Mention that -n is very useful option.
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I'm a long-time netstat user, but it took me a while to figure out what combination of flags would be useful to pass to netstat. I only ended up learning about "-tulpn" because a friend told me how they used netstat.
This adds a couple of examples of common ways to use netstat, so that future beginners can potentially learn about common patterns to use the tool from the man page instead of having to know someone, and so that infrequent users can use it as a quick reminder.
I also asked on Mastodon to do a little crowdsourcing of popular netstat options. I settled on -tulpn since it seems like a fairly common favourite.