Hi,
The traditional netcat had a -e option to "Execute the specified
command, using data from the network for stdin, and sending stdout
and stderr to the network..."
Whilst I can understand that this option might not be desirable to be
included in the binary (for security reason ?), I occasionally find
it very useful, and so emulate it with a shell script:
$ cat wetcat
#!/bin/ksh
CMD="$*"
LISTEN_PORT=1234
MYPID=$$
FIFO=/tmp/${RANDOM}_${MYPID}.fifo
mkfifo -m 600 $FIFO
($CMD < $FIFO ) 2>&1 | nc -l $LISTEN_PORT > $FIFO
rm $FIFO
If others would find it useful too, maybe it could be added to the
examples section of the nc(1) man page ?
/Pete
