apt install ncat

ncat --listen [<host>] [<port>]
ncat -l [<host>] [<port>]

-4     Forces nc to use IPv4 addresses only.
-6     Forces nc to use IPv6 addresses only.
-b     Allow broadcast.
-C     Send CRLF as line-ending.
-D     Enable debugging on the socket.
-d     Do not attempt to read from stdin.
-h     Prints out nc help.
-I length     Specifies the size of the TCP receive buffer.
-i interval     Specifies a delay time interval between lines of text sent and received. Also, causes a delay time between connections to multiple ports.
-k     Forces nc to stay listening for another connection after its current connection is completed. It is an error to use this option without the -l option.
-l     Used to specify that nc should listen for an incoming connection rather than initiate a connection to a remote host. It is an error to use this option in conjunction with the -p, -s, or -z options. Additionally, any timeouts specified with the -w option are ignored.
-n     Do not do any DNS or service lookups on any specified addresses, hostnames or ports.
-O length     Specifies the size of the TCP send buffer.
-P proxy_username     Specifies a username to present to a proxy server that requires authentication. If no username is specified then authentication will not be attempted. Proxy authentication is only supported for HTTP CONNECT proxies at present.
-p source_port     Specifies the source port nc should use, subject to privilege restrictions and availability.
-q seconds     after EOF on stdin, wait the specified number of seconds and then quit. If seconds is negative, wait forever.
-r     Specifies that source or destination ports should be chosen randomly instead of sequentially within a range or in the order that the system assigns them.
-S     Enables the RFC 2385 TCP MD5 signature option.
-s source     Specifies the IP of the interface that is used to send the packets. For UNIX-domain datagram sockets, specifies the local temporary socket file to create and use so that datagrams can be received. It is an error to use this option in conjunction with the -l option.
-T toskeyword     Change IPv4 TOS value. toskeyword may be one of critical, inetcontrol, lowcost, lowdelay, netcontrol, throughput, reliability, or one of the DiffServ Code Points: ef, af11 ... af43, cs0 ... cs7; or a number in either hex or decimal.
-t     Causes nc to send RFC 854 DON'T and WON'T responses to RFC 854 DO and WILL requests. This makes it possible to use nc to script telnet sessions.
-U     Specifies to use UNIX-domain sockets.
-u     Use UDP instead of the default option of TCP. For UNIX-domain sockets, use a datagram socket instead of a stream socket. If a UNIX-domain socket is used, a temporary receiving socket is created in /tmp unless the -s flag is given.
-V rtable     Set the routing table to be used. The default is 0.
-v     Have nc give more verbose output.
-w timeout     Connections which cannot be established or are idle timeout after timeout seconds. The -w flag has no effect on the -l option, i.e. nc will listen forever for a connection, with or without the -w flag. The default is no timeout.
-X proxy_protocol     Requests that nc should use the specified protocol when talking to the proxy server. Supported protocols are "4" (SOCKS v.4), "5" (SOCKS v.5) and "connect" (HTTPS proxy). If the protocol is not specified, SOCKS version 5 is used.
-x proxy_address[:port]     Requests that nc should connect to destination using a proxy at proxy_address and port. If port is not specified, the well-known port for the proxy protocol is used (1080 for SOCKS, 3128 for HTTPS).
-Z     DCCP mode.
-z     Specifies that nc should only scan for listening daemons, without sending any data to them. It is an error to use this option in conjunction with the -l option.

ncat -l -p 567

ncat 1.2.3.4 5676

ncat infile | nc 1.2.3.4 567 -q 10

ncat -l -p 567 > textfile

ncat -l -p 678 | tar xvfpz

tar zcfp - /path/to/directory | ncat -w 3 1.2.3.4 678

"echo '<0>message' | ncat -w 1 -u syslogger 514"

ncat -v -e '/bin/bash' -l -p 1234 -t

ncat l p 1234 e "c\windows\system32\cmd.exe"

echo -e "GET http//www.google.com HTTP/1.0nn" | ncat -w 5 www.google.com 80

ncat -v -l -p 80 < cat homepage.txt

ncat -C --ssl <server> 443

ncat -v --listen --ssl