Re: Re: Full-disclosure Digest, Vol 7, Issue 25

[lonely wolf <wolfy () nobugconsulting ro>]

Peer Janssen wrote:

> Aditya Deshmukh wrote:
>
> > > > (on system you want to copy)
> > > > dd if=/dev/hda | nc otherhost 5000
> > > >     
> > >
> > > If you are running bash, then you do not even need netcat:
> > >
> > >     dd if=/dev/hda > /dev/tcp/otherhost/5000
> > >   
> >
> > This is interesting.
> Indeed :-)
>
> > Which version of bash are you using ? I havent found it in my man page!
> >  
> My guess is that it probably has nothing to do with bash but with the 
> devices your system provides.
> But where is documentation for this kind of useful information anyway? 


it's in bash for a long time. however not all distributions compile bash 
with this option activated. debian for instance does not.
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