March 31, 2009 at 22:31Transferring files between two computers over the Internet (netcat)
A simple and very useful utility that can transmit data over a network.
netcat (or nc) should be in any distribution. If it is not there, then it is posed as follows by the example of debian:
The idea of netcat is very simple: it simply redirects the data stream to the port of the network device, and at the other end the stream is redirected to a file.
use it like this:
on the server side
on the client side: The -q 0 switch is needed so that netcat shuts down immediately after sending, you can send files by first packing them: on the server side on the client side:
netcat (or nc) should be in any distribution. If it is not there, then it is posed as follows by the example of debian:
apt-get install netcatThe idea of netcat is very simple: it simply redirects the data stream to the port of the network device, and at the other end the stream is redirected to a file.
use it like this:
on the server side
nc -l -p 3333 > file.txton the client side: The -q 0 switch is needed so that netcat shuts down immediately after sending, you can send files by first packing them: on the server side on the client side:
cat file.txt | nc -q 0 3333 nc -l -p 3333 | tar xvtar cv * | nc -q 0 3333