You probably didn’t know but you can trivially open a network socket and communicate with a host by writing to: /dev/<PROTO>/<HOST>/<PORT> The protocol can be UDP or TCP and the host any internet connect machine including localhost. Why is this useful? It allows you to create scripts that, for example, grab a webpage and don’t rely on external tools like curl or telnet. This makes the scrip much more portable and you don’t need to run bunch of test to make sure your dependancies are pre...
