How to access Unix Domain Sockets from the command line?

nc -U </unix/socket> almost in any Linux, BSD, MacOs.

You can use ncat command from the nmap project:

ncat -U /tmp/tbsocket1

To make it easy to access, you can do this:

# forward incoming 8080/tcp to unix socket
ncat -vlk 8080 -c 'ncat -U /tmp/tbsocket1'
# make a http request via curl
curl http://localhost:8080

You can also use socat:

# forward incoming 8080/tcp to unix socket
socat -d -d TCP-LISTEN:8080,fork UNIX:/tmp/tbsocket1

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