Re: [gentoo-user] netcat - which?

[Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:03 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
> eix netcat returned net-analyzer/gnu-netcat and net-analyzer/netcat
>
> What's the difference? Which one should I emerge?
>
> Rgds,
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For a third, unasked, option... if you're not using any of the more
extravagant features, you practically always have busybox on hand
already...

$ busybox nc
BusyBox v1.19.3 (2012-02-21 22:48:14 EST) multi-call binary.

Usage: nc [OPTIONS] HOST PORT  - connect
nc [OPTIONS] -l -p PORT [HOST] [PORT]  - listen

	-e PROG	Run PROG after connect (must be last)
	-l	Listen mode, for inbound connects
	-p PORT	Local port
	-s ADDR	Local address
	-w SEC	Timeout for connects and final net reads
	-i SEC	Delay interval for lines sent
	-n	Don't do DNS resolution
	-u	UDP mode
	-v	Verbose
	-o FILE	Hex dump traffic
	-z	Zero-I/O mode (scanning)

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