distressed:) fishsticks$ exec 5<>/dev/tcp/www.perl.org/80 :) fishsticks$ echo -e "GET / HTTP/1.0\nHost: www.perl.org\n\n" >&5 :) fishsticks$ head -1 <&5 HTTP/1.1 200 OK :) fishsticks$ ls /dev/tcp ls: /dev/tcp: No such file or directory
Potentially handy, yes, but yeeesh.
2005-09-07 07:56 pm (UTC)
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2005-09-08 02:28 am (UTC)
I do get the smiley-return-value thing. I may have to start using something like that!
2005-09-08 03:58 am (UTC)
It's just icky but neato! bash now supports sockets, and the syntax for accessing them uses "paths" that don't exist anywhere but in bash's little imagination.
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