[solved] How to see "total received" "total sent" statistics from the command line?

[HyperBear]

Shown by GNOME system monitor.

Is there any way to see these statistics from the command line?

[HyperBear]

Found it!

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netstat -s |grep Octet

Why "octet" and not "byte"? Wikipedia tells us:

The term is often used when the term byte might be ambiguous, as the byte has historically been used for storage units of a variety of sizes.

[Coggy]

Octet is the telecomms term for 8 bits. It has nothing to do with computer memory other than both computer memory and telecommunications gear have both settled on 8 bits being a convenient size. SDLC and HDLC are still in use today, and they are completely defined in terms of octets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchrono ... nk_Control
This was somewhat before the term byte almost universally came to mean 8-bit-byte (rather than other sizes) in computer architectures.

[HyperBear]

@Coggy Good to know.