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Is anybody else not able to get nc -lp 8888 working on Mac OS X? Is there another way to get this to work?

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How does it not work? Does it return an error? – heavyd Mar 3 '10 at 1:58
I am not near a mac right now, but it returns the useage. nc -lp 8888 works on my Ubuntu box. – kzh Mar 3 '10 at 15:50
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It looks to me as if the -p option does nothing on the OS X version of netcat. To get it to work, I must do nc -l localhost 8888.

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