file2sock (1)

Sends the contents of a file to a tcp or unix domain socket.

  1. Carta.tech
  2. Man Pages
  3. Executable programs or shell commands
  4. file2sock: Sends the contents of a file to a tcp or unix domain socket.
  1. Carta.tech
  2. Packages
  3. ndoutils-common
  4. file2sock: Sends the contents of a file to a tcp or unix domain socket.

SYNOPSIS

file2sock -s <source> -d <dest> [-t <type>] [-p <port>]

DESCRIPTION

Sends the contents of a file to a TCP or UNIX domain socket. The contents of the file are sent in their original format - no conversion, encapsulation, or other processing is done before sending the contents to the destination socket.

<source> Name of the file to read from. Use '-' to read from stdin.

<dest> If destination is a TCP socket, the address/hostname to connect to.

         If destination is a Unix domain socket, the path to the socket.

<type> Specifies the type of destination socket.

         Valid values include: tcp unix (default)

<port> Port number to connect to if destination is TCP socket.