On 4/4/06, Paul Hebble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 09:34:56PM +0200, "Nils O. Selåsdal" wrote: > > Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: > > >Am I missing something? Which is the program I'm expecting to find for > > >that redirection? > > It's always the one you least expect: > > Bash handles several filenames specially when they are > used in redirections, as described in the following table: > > /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. > > (Sorry for the weird quoting, I already deleted Lluís's email, so I had to > wait for another reply to get on the thread.) >
It's worth noting /dev/tcp is part of bash. zsh has it's own ways of doing the same stuff. netcat is *not* the only way to do this stuff on unix... it just appears to be the only shell-agnostic way. Dave > -- > Paul >
