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Indeed, the tools listing in that post makes clear that nc should be available. If you have another Unix machine elsewhere, the nc solution avoids having to install any new software on either machine.



Indeed! I meant to mention the nc option, but I've found that ftpput/get are more often available than nc, perhaps something to do with the ubiquity of ftp.


Much the other way around. Netcat is ubiquitous. I haven't come across many systems with ftpput and ftpget.

Neat challenge left as an exercise to the reader: whois can be used to transfer files too. :)


Interesting, we must be looking at a different class of devices. If we're going down that road, there's always base64 and copy + paste!


>whois can be used to transfer files too.

Ah, the old DNS-tunnelling trick. A fun way to flip cheap hotels the bird.




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