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I have a netcat udp connection listening with nc -l -u .... I've been trying to do a per packet manipulation of the incoming data with just command line, but it doesn't look like there is a flag in netcat to indicate a new packet.

First, is it possible to just apply a new line to the end of each packet coming in from netcat?

If not, is there a way instead to match a string and output a new line while netcat is streaming in data?

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You won't be able to distinguish a UDP packet that contains a newline from two separate UDP packets. Try if one of socat's plethora of options solves your problem, but you may need to move on to Perl/Python/Ruby. –  Gilles Aug 13 '13 at 22:41

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Server side:

# nc -l -u -p 666 > /tmp/666.txt

Other server side's shell:

# tail -F /tmp/666.txt | while IFS= read -r line; do
    echo "$line";
    # do what you want.
  done;

Client side:

# nc -uv 127.0.0.1 666

#### Print your commands.
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