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

["David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

Yep... layering violations abound.

zsh is a lot cleaner about it, doesn't pretend to be part of the
filesystem.  But then again, netcat already did most of this job so
*shrug*.

Dave

On 4/4/06, Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com> wrote:
> bless bash.  that's a disgusting hack.
>
> brucee
>
> On 4/5/06, Lluís 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!
> >
> >
> >
>