document updated 2 years ago, on Nov 14, 2023
Utilities that function very similarly to netcat are:
- nc — there are at least two ports that name their binaries 'nc':
- ncat — part of the Nmap project
- socat
- pnetcat — written in Python by the University of California, Irvine
- cryptcat
- netcat — written by Giovanni Giacobbi
- nc6
- sock
- socket
- spd
- Perl one-liner: perl -MIO::Socket::INET -le 'IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr=>shift,Timeout=>4)||die $!;print"Connected successfully"' paperlined.org:22