[Fwd: Re: [lug] port in use]

[Hugh Brown]

I'm getting closer.

It turns out that you can use redirects to /dev/tcp/host/port to open a
socket to that port

The problem I have now is how to tell bash just try to open it but don't read or write to it.


Hugh


> > >What's a portable way to find out if a port is in use from a shell
> > >script?
> > >
> > >The output from netstat  on solaris and linux is fairly different.
> > >
> > >Hugh