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

Re:A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat (2009) by jvoorhis on Monday August 05, 2013 @12:52AM (#6158541)

Stupid LAN trick: you can combine nc with pbcopy/pbpaste for distributed copy/paste on macs.

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Re:A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat (2009) by timmow on Monday August 05, 2013 @04:09PM (#6162597)

I do something similar with local port forwarding in ssh - I can also use this to open files on remote servers in local gui editors, and to send things to notification centre - useful if you leave a long running task in the background.

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Re:A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat (2009) by nicholassmith on Monday August 05, 2013 @08:23AM (#6159678)

That sounds like a useful LAN trick, not a stupid one. I can't think of a situation recently where I've needed it but I'm sure it'll crop up some point.

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