While I don't think there's a way. I took a shell scripting class a year or two ago and we used netpipes for tcp connecrions. Since it was a very bash class we'd have used bash if possible
On 1/16/09, Albert Hopkins <mar...@letterboxes.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 21:53 -0800, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> In Bash /dev/tcp/host/port can be used to write to a TCP socket. This >> works nicely so I was very curious whether it would work the other way >> too: is it possible to have a Bash script listen on a particular port >> as if it were a server? I couldn't find anything in the Bash manual >> about it. Google does find a few examples but they all use nc. But >> that's cheating! ;-) Is it possible with just Bash, no extra tools? >> (If yes, please enlighten me as to how, obviously I could not get it >> to work.) > > ... and some would even say using bash to begin with is cheating. > > > > > >
