created: 20221202224129631
modified: 20230206111552224
modifier: Octt
tags: Snippets $:/i18n:en
title: netcat/Normal Shell

From https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/345628:

Run on host to spawn a network-attached shell (requires bash due to coproc):

```bash
coproc netcat -l -p $PORT
exec bash <&${COPROC[0]} >&${COPROC[1]} 2>&1
```

Run on client to connect to host:

```sh
nc $ADDRESS $PORT
```