[TriLUG] netcat - must be doing something stupid

[Greg Brown]

Oddly enough there is only "netcat" on the Knoppix side and "nc" on the OS X
side.

On 6/29/06, David McDowell <turnpike420 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> you have 1 command with "nc" in it and one command with "netcat" in
> it.  Are they properly aliased to the correct binary?   just askin...
> :D
>
>
> On 6/29/06, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Machine A: dead PC running Knoppix, all drives are mounted and can be
> > "ls"ed, "df"'ed, etc
> > Machine B: OS X were I'd like to move data from Machine A
> >
> > Machine B (destination): nc -l -p 4444 | tar x
> >
> > Machine A (source): tar cf - * | netcat 192.168.x.x 4444  (where x.x is
> of
> > course machine A)
> >
> > This does not work.  No data traverses the network.  I've tried many
> > different port numbers.  I'm off to bury myself in the man pages
> again.  The
> > directory on Machine B, where I want to transfer the data, is writeable
> and
> > verified with 'touch test.file'.
> >
> > I'm looking at this command and obviously missing something that should
> be
> > jumping right out at me.  Any ideas what it is?  I'm off to read the man
> > pages again.
> >
> > Greg
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