Netcat File Transfer

Posted by SNM on May 25, 2017

Summary

Netcat File Transfer

Command

 Listener
 nc -l -p 12345 > output.txt
Netcat File Listener

Netcat File Listener

 
 Client
 nc 192.168.0.1 12345 -w 5 < input.txt
Netcat File Client

Netcat File Client

Description
Listener
-l listen
-p listen on port 12345
> output.txt transfer any incoming data to file

Client
192.168.0.1 remote listener to connect to
12345 remote port on listener
-w timeout after 5 seconds when stdin is idle
< pipe input.txt to nc