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Re:A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat (2009) by harshreality on Monday August 05, 2013 @03:31AM (#6158855)
There's a better utility available than ncat. It's called socat. It has more features than ncat that people might find useful.

http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/doc/socat.html#EXAMPLES

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Re:A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat (2009) by amboar on Monday August 05, 2013 @05:33AM (#6159167)
Dropped into the comments to mention socat. I use it regularly to debug serial and multicast issues or to lash up network logging for random shell scripts. It's a very valuable addition to the toolbox IMO.

Edit: somehow my phone managed to post this comment three times. I've deleted the others

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Re:A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat (2009) by sargun on Monday August 05, 2013 @07:32AM (#6159511)
I really like socat, and use it pretty regularly for interfacing with unix sockets. Ncat, and socat have a divergent featureset though. Some combination of the two yields good results.
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