I can imagine why that would be useful, but that seems like a fundamentally misguided feature. The shell is a key partner in the Unix philosophy of small progra

I can imagine why that would be useful, but that seems like a fundamentally misguided feature. The shell is a key partner in the Unix philosophy of small programs that do a particular thing. The maintainers of bash should have known better than to add this. What does /dev/tcp add to bash, other than security vulnerabilities, that couldn't be better accomplished with wget, curl, netcat, or similar programs external to bash?