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by drats 5239 days ago
I didn't know about /dev/tcp/host/port, has a nice Plan 9-like feel.
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Only available on Linux.

More portably, you can use something like netcat or socat.

It's implemented with an ugly hack in bash. I'd rather use netcat.
Not too sure about the "Opens a UDP connection" though :)