• OpenStars@discuss.online
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    4 months ago

    Ooh I’ve never heard of it. netcat I mean, cause I’ve heard of Linux 😆.

    The File Transfer Protocol is just very antiquated, while scp is simple. Possibly netcat is too:-).

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      4 months ago

      Netcat is basically just a utility to listen on a socket, or connect to one, and send or receive arbitrary data. And as, in Linux, everything is a file, which means you can handle every part of your system (eg. block devices [physical or virtual disks]) like a normal file, i.e. text, you can just transfer a block device (e.g. /dev/sda3) over raw sockets.