When I run ss -tnlp to display all programs listening for tcp connections (something I do rather often) I get something like this:
Despite the terminal being wide enough, ss chooses to split some lines and display the processes on the next line. I can make my terminal spread two huge monitors but it doesn't matter how wide the terminal is, ss likes to use line breaks and huuuge whitspace in-between columns. Compare this with the deprecated netstat output:
Everything fits on one line, very nice and readable tabular output. But because I'm a good person cough I use ss, not netstat because that's what we ought to do, right?
I can make ss behave sanely by piping its output to cat:
Still, a lot of wasted space but at least there are no unnecessary line-breaks.
My question: Why was ss written to behave this way? Why would anyone ever want their output spread across a huge space and then line-wrapped?
