SS And Netstat Error

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I get an error when running either netstat or ss commands. The error is:
bash: cd: too many arguments

I get the error seeming regardless of the command parameters used (e.g. netstat -anp or netstat --help or no parameters at all).

I can successfully execute the commands on other distros, so I suspect the issue is specifically with Fedora. Also, other commands seem to work as expected, so it seems specific to accessing the network processes.

I updated the system and rebooted, but the issue remains. I am running KDE on Fedora 43. The kernel version is 6.18.3-200.fc43.x86_64.

I am a new Fedora user, and am not sure where to start with troubleshooting this issue. My questions are:

  1. Has anyone else encountered the issue and have a solution?
  2. Can anyone provide some debug tips to try and find the exact cause?

Many Thanks!

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My guess is tbat you have a problem with the way bash is configured.
Did you add aliases for ss that trigger the error?
Maybe some other badh setup?

Try running as /usr/bin/ss to make it explicit what command to run.
Do you see the error message anymore?

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Yes, that was it. I did not even think of that. The problem was I had an alias for netstat to use ss instead, as some distros no longer have ss. I then had inadvertantly created a new alias for ss to change to a specific project folder. Doh! Thank you so much. You da man!

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Sorry, meant to say that some distros no longer have netstat. Doh!

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I marked Barry’s post as the solution, its really helpful to us if you ‘like’ good posts and mark topics as ‘solved’.

Welcome to Fedora! Glad to have you here.

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netstat was deprecated a long log time (10+ years?) ago with ss being the faster full featured replacement.

And ifconfig was deprected in favor of the ip command.