
Note that you can to stop the Netcat HTTP server by pressing. Then open a web browser and can access the content using the following address. $ while : do ( echo -ne "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n" cat index.html ) | nc -l -p 8080 done Then serve the above file over HTTP by running the following command, which will enables the HTTP server to run continuously. Serving this file using Netcat Basic HTTP server! $ vim index.htmlĪdd the following HTML lines in the file. Wit the -l option of nc command used to create a basic, insecure web server to serve static web files for learning purposes. $ nc 192.168.56.1 5000Ĭreate Chat Server in Command Line Create a Basic Web Server On the other system, run the following command to launch a chat session to a machine where the messaging server is running. On one system, run the following command to create the chat server listening on port 5000. As in the previous usage example, nc must be installed on both systems used for the chat room. You can also use Netcat to create a simple command-line messaging server instantly. $ nc 192.168.1.4 3000 | pv | tar -zxf -įile Transfer Between Linux Systems Create a Command Line Chat Server $ tar -zcf - debian-10.0.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso | pv | nc -l -p 3000 -q 5Īnd on the receiver/client computer, run the following command to obtain the file. This will run nc in listening mode ( -l flag) on port 3000.
NETCAT REVERSE SHELL EXAMPLE ISO
Netcat allows you to transfer files between two Linux computers or servers and both these systems must have nc installed.įor example, to copy an ISO image file from one computer to another and monitor the transfer progress (using the pv utility), run the following command on the sender/server computer (where the ISO file exists).

Scan for Open Ports in Linux Transfer Files Between Linux Servers

The -v option enables verbose mode and -w specifies a timeout for connection that can not be established. Here is an example, the -z option sets nc to simply scan for listening daemons, without actually sending any data to them. It can scan a single or multiple or a range of open ports. Netcat can be used for port scanning: to know which ports are open and running services on a target machine.
