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telnet — Connect to a specified port of a host using the telnet protocol. More information: <https://manned.o

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Problem

How to use the telnet command: Connect to a specified port of a host using the telnet protocol. More information: <https://manned.org/telnet>.

Solution

telnet — Connect to a specified port of a host using the telnet protocol. More information: <https://manned.org/telnet>.

Telnet to the default port of a host:

telnet {{host}}

Telnet to a specific port of a host:

telnet {{ip_address}} {{port}}

[Interactive] Exit a telnet session:

quit

Emit the default escape character combination for terminating the session:

<Ctrl ]>

Start telnet with "x" as the session termination character:

telnet {{[-e|--escape]}} {{x}} {{ip_address}} {{port}}

Telnet to Star Wars animation:

telnet {{towel.blinkenlights.nl}}

Code Snippets

Telnet to the default port of a host

telnet {{host}}

Telnet to a specific port of a host

telnet {{ip_address}} {{port}}

[Interactive] Exit a telnet session

quit

Emit the default escape character combination for terminating the session

<Ctrl ]>

Start `telnet` with "x" as the session termination character

telnet {{[-e|--escape]}} {{x}} {{ip_address}} {{port}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/telnet

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