:) 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.
I do get the smiley-return-value thing. I may have to start using something like that!
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.