Comment on Show HN: Quickly copy a file between computersparentComments−diginuxOP13yDoesn't seem to work for mesender$ tar -c awesome.jpg | nc -l 0.0.0.0 12345(waiting forever)recipient$ nc 255.255.255.255 12345 | tar -xtar: This does not look like a tar archivetar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors−bluehex13yI'm not at a terminal now so can't verify this but it looks like you swapped the send and receive addresses from what was suggested. Try send on broadcast and receive on 0.0.0.0.
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Doesn't seem to work for me
sender$ tar -c awesome.jpg | nc -l 0.0.0.0 12345
(waiting forever)
recipient$ nc 255.255.255.255 12345 | tar -x
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
I'm not at a terminal now so can't verify this but it looks like you swapped the send and receive addresses from what was suggested. Try send on broadcast and receive on 0.0.0.0.