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Re:Sockets in Your Shell by _ZeD_ on Thursday December 03, 2020 @08:20AM (#25288526)
how is this a bash-ism? you mean it's related to linux /dev tree?
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Re:Sockets in Your Shell by bitwize on Thursday December 03, 2020 @10:48AM (#25289990)
No, it's not related to the actual /dev tree. Bash handles redirects to /dev/tcp/* and /dev/udp/* specially if there are no files at those locations.
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Re:Sockets in Your Shell by TheGrassyKnoll on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:09PM (#25294975)
I didn't know this. This is related: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7765004/tcp-connection-b...
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