Re: nc missing option -z

[James Hogarth]

> Thanks a lot!  I had a suspicion the issue was something like this.
> This is extremely inconvenient though, since now I have to change quite
> a few scripts, more importantly now I also have to figure out the
> machine my script is running on (e.g. laptop or institutes servers).
>
> I guess switching to nmap might resolve the second issue.

You could test if the package installed is netcat (or was it called nc?) or
nmap-ncat and then execute as appropriate in your script.