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jmags

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Registered: 2006-03-07

Posts: 48

What are you kids calling telnet sessions these days?

When I type

telnet (foo)

Arch tell me

-bash: telnet: command not found

is there some fancy new technology that has replaced ye olde telnet session or what?

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

Posts: 3,108

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Re: What are you kids calling telnet sessions these days?

You might want to install telnet.

$ pacman -Qo `which telnet`
/usr/bin/telnet is owned by netkit-telnet 0.17-6

Searching for these things in pacman is easy:

$ pacman -Ss telnet
current/netkit-telnet 0.17-6
    A telnet client (and server)
extra/putty 0.58-1
    A terminal integrated SSH/Telnet client known from Windows.

phildg

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Registered: 2006-03-10

Posts: 146

Re: What are you kids calling telnet sessions these days?

Depends what you want to use telnet for.

There is a telnet server/client package available: netkit-telnet

But, if you're wanting to remotely login to your machine you should be using ssh: OpenSSH

edit: seems I was beaten to it 

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: What are you kids calling telnet sessions these days?

What are you kids calling telnet sessions these days?

Obsolete?

Fancy (not-so-)new technology = SSH

elasticdog

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From: Washington, USA

Registered: 2005-05-02

Posts: 995

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Re: What are you kids calling telnet sessions these days?

$ pacman -Qo `which telnet`
/usr/bin/telnet is owned by netkit-telnet 0.17-6

Clever use of <code>which telnet</code> there...I need to be more command-line clever. 

Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

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Re: What are you kids calling telnet sessions these days?

yeah, but backticks are so old-school... they're sh and not terribly nestable. Bash syntax is cooler:

dusty:~ $ pacman -Qo $(which telnet)
/usr/bin/telnet is owned by netkit-telnet 0.17-6

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ilmorris

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Registered: 2005-07-28

Posts: 55

Re: What are you kids calling telnet sessions these days?

When I type

telnet (foo)

Arch tell me

-bash: telnet: command not found

is there some fancy new technology that has replaced ye olde telnet session or what?

I prefer connecting via SSH, if the server side is setup for it.

pacman -Sy openssh

ssh username@hostname

deficite

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From: Augusta, GA

Registered: 2005-06-02

Posts: 693

Re: What are you kids calling telnet sessions these days?

What are you kids calling telnet sessions these days?

Obsolete?

Fancy (not-so-)new technology = SSH

Totally beat me to it 8)

paranoos

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From: thornhill.on.ca

Registered: 2004-07-22

Posts: 442

Re: What are you kids calling telnet sessions these days?

zsh is cooler. you can get a full path without using which, just =command.

pacman -Qo =telnet

palandir

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Registered: 2006-05-14

Posts: 73

Re: What are you kids calling telnet sessions these days?

yeah, but backticks are so old-school... they're sh and not terribly nestable. Bash syntax is cooler:

dusty:~ $ pacman -Qo $(which telnet)
/usr/bin/telnet is owned by netkit-telnet 0.17-6

Dusty

Correct, but remember that you will probably have less problems on other Unix systems if you try to avoid bash/GNU-specific features when there is no real need for it (e.g. using $() without nesting them). Good habit IMHO. Especially for shell scripts if you publish them.