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On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 21:53 -0800, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> In Bash /dev/tcp/host/port can be used to write to a TCP socket. This |
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> works nicely so I was very curious whether it would work the other way |
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> too: is it possible to have a Bash script listen on a particular port |
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> as if it were a server? I couldn't find anything in the Bash manual |
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> about it. Google does find a few examples but they all use nc. But |
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> that's cheating! ;-) Is it possible with just Bash, no extra tools? |
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> (If yes, please enlighten me as to how, obviously I could not get it |
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> to work.) |
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... and some would even say using bash to begin with is cheating. |
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