Re: [9fans] netcat, the only stdin/stdout redirector to tcp/udp conns?

[Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>]

Actually, this was done first in the Korn shell. (Surprise, surprise.)

Arnold

In article <775b8d190604041510h368f22aen31067a6e7333c8cc@mail.gmail.com> you write:
>bless bash.  that's a disgusting hack.
>
>brucee
>
>On 4/5/06, Lluםs Batlle i Rossell <viriketo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Paul Hebble wrote:
>> >               /dev/tcp/host/port
>> >                      If  host  is  a  valid  hostname or Internet
>> >                      address, and port is an integer port  number
>> >                      or service name, bash attempts to open a TCP
>> >                      connection to the corresponding socket.
>> >               /dev/udp/host/port
>> >                      If host is  a  valid  hostname  or  Internet
>> >                      address,  and port is an integer port number
>> >                      or service name, bash attempts to open a UDP
>> >                      connection to the corresponding socket.
>> And any other proposal for a listen? I think 'gawk' won't work fine as a
>> listener, specially for binary files (I'd like not to uuencode/uudecode
>> the transmission, although it went through my head).
>> Thanks!
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