Every so often, I find that I need to script some network connection. For interactive jobs, the standard answer is to use 'telnet' with 'expect' to achieve this. Unfortunately, expect is often a major pain to work with. The obvious modern solution would be to use Python, but I haven't learned that yet. What I do know is Bash, and wouldn't it be cool to do this entirely in Bash? So to prove that this works, I decided to write a simple telnet client entirely in Bash. If I can write ...
