[RndTbl] Shell programming question
Bill Reid
billreid at shaw.ca
Sat Apr 2 20:31:20 CST 2005
John Lange wrote:
>
> http://advbash.activeventure.net/index.html
>
I glanced at this reference and found it quite good. I also learned
something new.
Bash will open a network connection using the syntax
/dev/tcp/host/port
or
/dev/udp/host/port
An example connecting to the "daytime" port:
$ cat </dev/tcp/time.nist.gov/13
53463 05-04-03 02:27:51 51 0 0 269.6 UTC(NIST) *
-- Bill
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