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Re:Sherver: Bash lightweight web server by junon on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @07:51AM (#29648583)
~~Right. "Pure" bash would mean they somehow got sockets working in the scripting language itself, which is not possible unless you're on a system with `/dev/tcp` (which isn't many these days).~~

I am wrong! See response.

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Re:Sherver: Bash lightweight web server by rzzzt on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @08:02AM (#29648737)
/dev/tcp is a Bash construct (mentioned as "pseudo-device file" in the manual): https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/devref1.html
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Re:Sherver: Bash lightweight web server by junon on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @08:07AM (#29648784)
Oh huh, TIL it's only a Bash thing. I stand corrected - I thought it was a Linux thing that was removed for security reasons.

Thanks for correcting me :)

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