A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat (2009)

Re:A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat (2009) by voltagex_ on Sunday August 04, 2013 @11:32PM (#6158279)

There are so many different variants of netcat:

nc, netcat, ncat, socat... I can never be sure of which syntax I'm going to get on an unfamiliar server.

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Re:A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat (2009) by LukeShu on Monday August 05, 2013 @12:33AM (#6158492)

nc, ncat, and netcat are all the "same". Any of them could be any of:

  * the original netcat (http://nc110.sourceforge.net/)
  * OpenBSD netcat
  * "GNU netcat" (not affiliated with GNU)
  * BusyBox netcat
  * Nmap ncat (well, this one is typically always "ncat")

They all take roughly the same, but different, syntax, like 'cp', 'ls', or any of the *nix utilities with multiple implementations.

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