roccomuso / nc-wrapper

Node.js wrapper to the netcat util with fallbacks.

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.

OS	Supported
Linux	✅
Mac OS	✅
Windows	✅

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)