I discovered some awesome in Netcat while playing with BashReduce (http://github.com/erikfrey/bashreduce/ http://github.com/erikfrey/bashreduce/). That said Ba

I discovered some awesome in Netcat while playing with BashReduce (http://github.com/erikfrey/bashreduce/ http://github.com/erikfrey/bashreduce/). That said BashReduce uses the Debian version of Netcat which is different from every other version I could find. I ended up running Debian in VMWare to get BashReduce up and running on my Mac.