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+1 on this. Would love to see this using bash built-ins if possible. /dev/tcp might be a start.

• BenjiWiebe 4y ago
  I believe the issue is that bash has no built-in method for creating a listening socket / accepting connections. /dev/tcp can only connect to a listening socket, not create one.
  • rascul 4y ago
    There's a loadable for that. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/examples/loadables/accept.c http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/examples/load...
• arjvik 4y ago
  That only works for outgoing connections, sadly
• EddySchauHai 4y ago
  I definitely want to try work this out but I couldn't find much in the way of documentation, I'll give it a go when I have more time :)