Hi all, Hoo boy. If your shell is Bash, try the following two commands: cat /dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/22 cat < /dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/22 If that is not madness, I don't know what is. :( Do "man bash" and search in the man page for "/dev/tcp" Regards, Dianne. To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org