Re: A quickie on telnet

[Adam Shand <ashand@alaska.net>]

> > 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

Try this (just an example):

(echo "group comp.os.linux.misc" ; sleep 5 ) | telnet news.alaska.net nntp

This should work and you can can make the series inside the ()'s more
complicated if you want to do multiple commands.

Adam.


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