SHsh1mmer·Sep 16, 2009
I discovered some awesome in Netcat while playing with BashReduce (http://github.com/erikfrey/bashreduce/).
That said BashReduce uses the Debian version of Netcat which is different from every other version I could find. I ended up running Debian in VMWare to get BashReduce up and running on my Mac.
In I never realized how useful netcat is