Could easily introduce compression too: receiver$ nc -l 2000 | zcat > file sender$ nc receiver 2000 < $(cat file | gzip -f) But probably something like `r

Could easily introduce compression too: receiver$ nc -l 2000 | zcat > file sender$ nc receiver 2000 < $(cat file | gzip -f) But probably something like `rsync -azvP` will be much better in every way yet still quite portable and prevalent.