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

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Date: Wed Sep 14 12:29:42 2005
From: wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro (lonely wolf)
Subject: Re: Full-Disclosure Digest, Vol 7, Issue 25

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.