[TriLUG] netcat - must be doing something stupid

[David McDowell]

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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