⚙️ Rustcat ⚙️

-- Basic Netcat Alternative --

About

Rustcat is a port listener that can be used for different purposes.\ It is basically like netcat but with fewer options

Why use Rustcat?

• Serves it purpose of listening to ports
• It is easy to use
• Uses colors

Installation

Arch

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/rustcat.git cd rustcat makepkg -si Or with yay: yay -S rustcat

Other Distributions

To install from crates.io: cargo install rustcat To install from source: bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robiot/rustcat/main/latestinstall.sh) To install the latest github release (May not work on some distros): bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robiot/rustcat/main/install.sh) If you want it on windows you need to remove everything related to termion and rustyline from the source

Compiling yourself

To compile yourself 1. Download the source 2. Cd into the dir and run... cargo build --release You may also want to rename the executable to rc

Usage

rc [options] [destination] [port]

Usage Examples

Help : rc --help Listen to port 55660 on localhost : rc -lp 55660 Listen to port 55660 on localhost with command history : rc -lpH 55660 Listen to port 55660 on localhost udp : rc -lpu 55660 Listen to port 55660 on specified ip (192.168.1.10) : rc -l 192.168.1.10 55660