Continuously check netstat output for a particular program

Question

I have a android emulator running on port 5554. I want to continuously watch the netstat output concerning emulator stuff.

Right now I have to manually execute this command every time

sudo netstat -plant | grep emulator

I thought doing something like this would repeat above command automatically every 2 sec.

watch sudo netstat -plant | grep emulator

But instead it hangs the terminal. How to achieve such functionality ? Thanks

m4573r · Answer 1 · 2012-09-07T08:58:26.233

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Have you tried those options? From the man netstat page:

-c, --continuous
  This will cause netstat to print the selected information every second continuously. 
delay
  Netstat will cycle printing through statistics every delay seconds.

In your case, you can just write:

sudo netstat -cplant | grep emulator

edited Sep 07 '12 at 08:58

answered Sep 07 '12 at 07:47

m4573r

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score -1 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 27 '14 at 07:42

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Try that in terminal:

netstat -tuonp

edited Jun 27 '14 at 07:42

Jens Erat

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answered Jun 27 '14 at 06:37

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Continuously check netstat output for a particular program

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