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On the receiving end running

nc -l -p 1234 > out.file

will begin listening on port 1234.

On the sending end running

nc -w 3 [destination] 1234 < out.file

will connect to the receiver and begin sending file.

Consider adding pv to check progress of really large files

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https://nakkaya.com/2009/04/15/using-netcat-for-file-transfers/

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