Rustcat - Netcat Alternative

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About

Rustcat is a port listener that can be used for different purposes.
It is basically like netcat but with fewer options

Why use Rustcat?

Serves it purpose of listening to ports Has command history It is easy to use Supports udp Uses colors

Installation

Debian

wget https://github.com/robiot/rustcat/releases/latest/download/rustcat_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./rustcat_amd64.deb

Arch

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/rustcat.git
cd rustcat
makepkg -si

Or with yay:

Other Distributions

To install from crates.io:

To install the latest github release without compiling yourself:

bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robiot/rustcat/main/install.sh)

If you want it on windows you need to remove everything related to termion and rustyline from the source

Compiling yourself

To compile yourself

Download the source Cd into the dir and run...

Usage

rc [options] [destination] [port]

Usage Examples

Help :

Listen to port 55660 on localhost :

Listen to port 55660 on localhost with command history :

Listen to port 55660 on localhost udp :

Listen to port 55660 on specified ip (192.168.1.10) :

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