Comment 6 for bug 566377

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Joshua (joshudson) wrote : Re: [Bug 566377] Re: -e option not present

I pitched ubuntu into the garbage more than two years ago. Go away.

On 7/22/12, Bump <email address hidden> wrote:
> So ubuntu now uses nc.openbsd as nc and the other nc.traditional has to
> be installed. It's called nc-traditional.
>
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> Title:
> -e option not present
>
> Status in “netcat” package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: netcat
>
> I run backups like this (yeah I know not secure):
>
> 'nc -l -p 1000 -e dump.sh' & ssh backupserver nc workstation 1000 \|
> tar -xf -
>
> contents of dump.sh:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> tar -cf - *
>
> Well the new version of netcat has no equivalent of -e so this breaks
> and I can't easily fix it.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: netcat 1.10-38
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.31-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Sun Apr 18 19:15:43 2010
> PackageArchitecture: all
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: netcat
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