February 17, 2009
A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat – good coders code, great reuse – Netcat is often referred to as a “Swiss Army knife” utility, and for a good reason. Just like the multi-function usefulness of the venerable Swiss Army pocket knife, netcat’s functionality is as helpful. Some of its features include port scanning, [...]
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September 29, 2006
Roll your own servers with Netcat – Lifehacker Unix command-line utility netcat gets called the “network swiss army knife” with good reason. Like the best UNIX utilities, it’s very simple but can perform all sorts of useful tasks. (tags: unix netcat linux networking security utilities)
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