Re: A quickie on telnet
You might try the netcat program, it is specifically designed for this
and is (yipee!) a Debian package.
Mike Patterson <mike@col.hp.com> writes:
> Very simply, I'm trying to telnet to a site and get some data from a script.
> In HPUX, I would do this:
>
> echo "Alinetobesent" | telnet an.address.com 1234
>
> And it would happily telnet to the machine and echo the command, getting me
> the results I wanted. This doesn't seem to work under any of the shells I
> could find installed in DEBIAN, or any odd variation I could come up with.
>
> Any ideas, or do I have to re-write in C using sockets (bleah)?
>
> --Mike
>
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