On: Two pieces of code someone really ought to write

[brutimus]

You can sorta get what he's asking for with a bash feature. http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/devref1.html#DEVTCP

[iuytrfghj → brutimus]

Yes but thats a hack built into bash

The point of unix is to do everything in the file system then anything that can open a file can do everything