BSD Ports

sysutils/socket 1.2 OpenBSD

create tcp socket and connect to stdin/out

System
OpenBSD
Repository
OpenBSD ports
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]>
Categories
sysutils, net

Description

The program Socket implements access to TCP sockets from shell level. First written for the need to open a server socket and read and write to the socket interactively for testing purposes, it quickly evolved into a generic tool providing the socket interface for shell script and interactive use.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
OpenBSDsysutils/socket1.2
NetBSDsysutils/socket1.1

Install

Binary package:

pkg_add socket

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/sysutils/socket && make install

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.