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Count Active Connections with ss on Debian VPS

Category: Bash

Use ss—a socket stats tool—in a Bash script on a Debian VPS—run:

ss -tuln | wc -l

to count ports On DigitalOcean script it:

#!/bin/bash\necho \"Connections: $(ss -tuln | wc -l)\" > conn.log

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