netstat lacks -W wide columns option

[kb0]

Binary package hint: net-tools

Netstat produces output formatted to 80 characters wide on some terminals. To achieve this width, columns are truncated.
Other versions of netstat include a -W option that ensures all information is output, even if it means making the columns a little less pretty.
netstat 1.42 in net-tools 1.60-17ubuntu1 lacks this feature.

[Eduard Hasenleithner (eduard-hasenleithner)]

When I try netstat -W on karmic I actually get "wide" output. Should it be called "fixed" then?

[Stéphane Lesimple (speed47)]

Well, actually it works for tcp6, but not for udp6 !

# lsb_release -c
Codename: karmic

# LANG=C netstat -Wantu -A inet6
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp6 0 0 2001:41d0:1:98xx:yyyy:zzzz:0000:1:5222 :::* LISTEN
udp6 0 0 2001:41d0:1:98xx:yy:123 :::*
udp6 0 0 fe80::21c:c0ff:fe17:123 :::*
udp6 0 0 2001:41d0:1:98xx:yy:123 :::*
udp6 0 0 2001:41d0:1:98xx:yy:123 :::*
udp6 0 0 ::1:123 :::*
udp6 0 0 :::123 :::*

# dpkg -l net-tools | grep ^ii
ii net-tools 1.60-23ubuntu1 The NET-3 networking toolkit

So... should we say... semi-fixed ? :s

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

This was fixed years ago.