use IO::Socket; my $server = IO::Socket::INET->new( Listen => 5, LocalAddr => 'localhost', LocalPort => 5050, Proto => 'tcp' ) or die "Can't create server socket: $!"; my $client = $server->accept; open FILE, ">out" or die "Can't open: $!"; while (<$client>) { print FILE $_; } close FILE; #### use IO::Socket; my $server = IO::Socket::INET->new( PeerAddr => 'localhost', PeerPort => 5050, Proto => 'tcp' ) or die "Can't create client socket: $!"; open FILE, "in"; while () { print $server $_; } close FILE;