such things however are just so often just so much better. I was working with an intern lately, we both had remote machines in the same subnet (i'm omitting so

such things however are just so often just so much better. I was working with an intern lately, we both had remote machines in the same subnet (i'm omitting some details, of course), and he had to pass me a file. We was about to download it on his laptop, upload it back to the cloud (slack message) when I would have had to download it on my laptop and send it back to the cloud. I was able to show this young engineer how to use cat and nc (cat somefile.tgz | nc <ip-address> 8000) to send and then I would use nc (nc -l 8000 > somefile.tgz) to send it in a moment, without third parties involved and without having to make this file go across the globe multiple times. The thing is: if you know what you actually need to do and have UNIX tools available, you can be insanely efficient.