bless bash. that's a disgusting hack. brucee
On 4/5/06, Lluís Batlle i Rossell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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! > > >
