Bashbro – Make Any Comp a Web-Based File Server

Post by herewulf » Tue, Jul 09, 2024, 7:49 AM UTC

alganet wrote: post #34

baumschubser wrote: post #23

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I solved that problem some time ago with netcat, „coproc nc -l -p PORT“. Makes bash listen to nc‘s stdout and let’s it write to it‘s stdin. But nc is not bash.

Here's my nc version, works on all shells: https://gist.github.com/alganet/140c7c12d1603c244a01 nc is almost everywhere, you can count on it. Ultimately, this is a toy, but it can be handy. I originally made it to attempt using for serving config for networked debian unattended installations[1] while automating VM creation, but never went that far. [1]: https://debian-handbook.info/browse/en-US/stable/sect.automa...

Post by yayr » Tue, Jul 09, 2024, 8:10 AM UTC

password4321 wrote: post #11

In a slightly more heavyweight category I've settled on dufs for my single binary file serving / uploading / password-protecting needs. https://github.com/sigoden/dufs

Post by pama » Tue, Jul 09, 2024, 1:47 PM UTC

Post by Joker_vD » Tue, Jul 09, 2024, 1:56 PM UTC

singron wrote: post #22

amelius wrote: post #10

This is cool, but there's currently an overload of ports assigned on my system. Is there a way to manage all these port numbers? And why can't we use strings, even if just locally? And what do people use to allocate port numbers in a way that you'll never get clashes?

You can listen on an anonymous port. It's similar to how the kernel allocates a port for outgoing connections. It's very useful if you want to listen ephemerally, especially in tests. The downside is that you need your server to report which port it's actually listening on, and if it restarts, it will get a different port.

    ss -lntp | grep 'pid=' | awk '{ print $4 }'

Post by oefrha » Tue, Jul 09, 2024, 2:40 PM UTC

Joker_vD wrote: post #46

oefrha wrote: post #39

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No way to allocate port numbers without clashes ever. What I do is having a Ports.md in my personal knowledge base with all port assignments in my personal projects and networks: port, description, project link and/or service host:port. This works very well, I don’t have tens of thousands of projects so I’m not going to exhaust port numbers. I used to try to use Unix domain sockets as much as possible for anything fr…

You can listen on port 0 and print the actual port on the stdout.