Preventing echo | netcat from closing on EOF
The problem: closes before printing any return value from the (UDP, in this case) server.
echo "foo" | ncat -u <ip> <port>
There are various solutions proposed. The -q or -Q options don't exist on my system. Using
echo -n doesn't help. I didn't try to do a mkfifo. The quick and dirty way worked best (adjust delay based on latency):
1 | (echo "foo" && sleep 0.1) | ncat -u <ip> <port>
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Ches Koblents
November 6, 2015
November 6, 2015