On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 12:11:06PM -0400, Ian Macdonald wrote: > which makes me think I that I am not closing the connection properly. How do > people end the netcat session once the DD has reported all the data blocks > that it has read? Netcat automatically closes the connection when it runs out of data to read. So, a command such as: dd if=/dev/hda7 | nc host port will automatically shutdown its end of the connection when it runs out of data -- the receiving end of the netcat will write its file to disk until it notices the other endpoint has closed its end of the connection. Then the receiver will tear down its end. No manual closing is required. (And yes, I did this twice yesterday, no problems. :) -- http://sardonix.org/
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