Display the listening ports on CentOS 7

It's been a while since I was serious about Linux, but the fun new goodies have lured me back towards the fold. A lot of things have changed over the last few years, some for the better, some not, but that's way beyond the scope here.

One thing that has been removed (at least from CentOS) is netstat. I'm going to call that a win, because invoking netstat always required a trip to the man page, aside from the trusty netstat -lnp.  The problem I have is that CentOS (and presumably RHEL) removed netstat, but decades worth of Google indexing has entrenched netstat as the blessed method of pulling a list of listening sockets.

Installing net-tools seems like the wrong approach, there must be a better way...and there is! Buried in a blog post, I found a conversion reference for netstat functionality. From this, I learned that ss is the replacement for the functionality I need. As an added bonus, it appears that the basic syntax is similar to my beloved sockstat.

For example, my oft-used "what's listening on the network":

ss -l46