Test if remote TCP port is open from a shell script

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As pointed by B. Rhodes, nc (netcat) will do the job. A more compact way to use it:

nc -z <host> <port>

That way nc will only check if the port is open, exiting with 0 on success, 1 on failure.

For a quick interactive check (with a 5 seconds timeout):

nc -z -v -w5 <host> <port>

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