Replacing Netcat

9front alternatives to netcat for Unix users

trampoline(8)

One substitute for netcat https://wiki.ircnow.org/?n=Netcat.Usage is trampoline(8)http://man.9front.org/8/trampoline.

; aux/trampoline $proto!$hostname!$port

Replace $proto , $hostname , and $port .

For example, to connect in plaintext to the IRC server irc.ircnow.org on port 6667:

; aux/trampoline tcp!irc.ircnow.org!6667

telnet(1)

Another substitute is telnet(1)http://man.9front.org/1/con.

To create a $proto netcat connection to $hostname and $port:

; telnet $proto!$hostname!$port

To create a netcat connection to use paste.ircnow.org:

; telnet -n tcp!paste.ircnow.org!7777 < /path/to/file

To upload a file to tcp.st:

; telnet -n tcp!tcp.st!7777 < /path/to/file

To connect to a webserver, use (carriage return C-m).

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