Netcat broadcast

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Ever wanted to copy a large file to multiple computers? Say, a 26GB Virtual Machine, to 10 training laptops...

Do it like this (using UDP broadcast)

Listeners

socat - UDP-DATAGRAM:192.168.45.255:5000,broadcast < in-file

Server

nc -lup 5000 > out-file
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