Creating a script for a Telnet session?

Question

Does anyone know of an easy way to create a script that can connect to a telnet server, do some usual telnet stuff, and then log off? I am dealing with users who are not fa

Answer 1

Bash shell supports this out-of-box, e.g.

exec {stream}<>/dev/tcp/example.com/80
printf "GET / HTTP/1.1\nHost: example.com\nConnection: close\n\n" >&${stream}
cat <&${stream}

To filter and only show some lines, run: grep Example <&${stream}.