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PunchyHamstertoday at 7:51 AM1 replyview on HN

it's weird that both lsof and ss defaults are so awful

Like, ss without any options shows such arcane, rarely needed details as send/receive queue size but not the application socket belongs to.

And omits listening sockets which is main use for such tools.

I know picking the right defaults is hard ask but they managed to pick all the wrong defaults.


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petepetetoday at 8:11 AM

I think the same applies for many of the new breed of command line applications like fd and ag/rg.

Being able to use them intuitively trumps ubiquity, speed or features.

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