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Old timers know (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ooh I've never heard of it. netcat I mean, cause I've heard of Linux 😆.

The File Transfer Protocol is just very antiquated, while scp is simple. Possibly netcat is too:-).

[–] 30p87@feddit.de 3 points 4 months ago

Netcat is basically just a utility to listen on a socket, or connect to one, and send or receive arbitrary data. And as, in Linux, everything is a file, which means you can handle every part of your system (eg. block devices [physical or virtual disks]) like a normal file, i.e. text, you can just transfer a block device (e.g. /dev/sda3) over raw sockets.