On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Jim Gottlieb wrote:

> Hi. I need to send and receive CSV text data to a socket and thought curl
> might be a good fit, but I haven't gotten it working.

> I tried:
>
> echo "data1,data2,2,60,60,data3,data4,1" | curl telnet://host:port/
>
> but the results are inconsistent. It doesn't seem to get all the data. But
> sometimes it does.
>
> Is this the wrong tool for the job? Any suggestions? I'm looking for
> something that I could use in a shell script.

I would say that you want nc (netcat) instead.

(But I think that command line is supposed to work with curl...)

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