> Nice tool. I would love access to the API once its public to write a bash script that allows you to search from terminal.

    > cat /etc/services | grep " 80/tcp"
    http 80/tcp www www-http # WorldWideWeb HTTP

Cat is useless in that line:

   $ grep " 80/tcp" /etc/services 
   http            80/tcp          www www-http    # WorldWideWeb HTTP

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It's not useless. With cat, I don't have to remember the order of grep's arguments.

Interesting. With grep you need at least something to search (one argument), don't you? If you don't provide another argument to say "where", it reads from standard input (as most unix commands).

But you already know that because you're using it that way with cat. How can you don't remember then the order of the arguments?

There:

> {1} With grep you need at least something to search (one argument), don't you? {2} If you don't provide another argument to say "where", it reads from standard input (as most unix commands).

And ‘find’ is the other way around.

I just don't see any reason to not to use cat. It's not like grep will use fseek() to speed anything up, if I call it with file URI instead.

I too would cat the file first, just get in the habit of doing it.

Thanks! distint ports are defiantly on the to do list.

The API is actually live using JSON and someone has written an Android App for it already, just need to document it and make it public.

Distinct and clickable "Top 5 Ports" has now been added :)

I'm confused. If you're on a terminal using bash, I guess you're in a POSIX system... why not using grep $PORT /etc/services?

That reminds me of another place to find some more ports to add, completely forgot about that file :)