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Re:Spicing unix shell scripts by drats on Sunday February 19, 2012 @06:31PM (#3610742)
I didn't know about /dev/tcp/host/port, has a nice Plan 9-like feel.
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Re:Spicing unix shell scripts by lambda on Monday February 20, 2012 @03:36AM (#3611761)
Only available on Linux.

More portably, you can use something like netcat or socat.

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Re:Spicing unix shell scripts by EdiX on Monday February 20, 2012 @06:49AM (#3612139)
It's implemented with an ugly hack in bash. I'd rather use netcat.
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Re:Spicing unix shell scripts by kl4m on Sunday February 19, 2012 @08:01PM (#3610921)
Not too sure about the "Opens a UDP connection" though :)
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