nc-wrapper

Use netcat everywhere, with fallback support.

Cross-platform. Supports: macOS, Windows, Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD.

See also the full node.js implementation of netcat.

Install

$ npm i -g nc-wrapper

Usage ncw

| Server side | Client side | |---------------------|------------------------------------| | ncw -l -p 2389 | ncw localhost 2389 |

By default on Linux and Windows will use the embedded binaries and the global installed ones only on exception raised.

On MacOS will try to use only the global nc if available.

Known issue. The process exit is handled as exception so it will enter into the catch block and spawn the fallback. I'm still looking for an elegant way to handle this.

Other example

Easily transfer a file:

| Server side | Client side | |---------------------|------------------------------------| | ncw -l 2389 > test | cat testfile | ncw localhost 2389 |

Author

Rocco Musolino (@roccomuso)