---
layout: post
title: Walking /proc/net/netstat like a pro with awk
category: GNU/Linux
tags:
  - networking
---

Little snippet to parse `/proc/net/netstat` and format the output:

```bash
awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++)title[i] = $i; getline; print title[1]; for(i=2;i<=NF;i++)printf " %s: %s\n", title[i], $i }' /proc/net/netstat

TcpExt:
 ...
IpExt:
 ...
```