:) 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.