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Or cd to the html directory and run this:

  python -m http.server 8080

which does not require anything else like socat.

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I think this is more of a “ain’t this interesting?” sort of thing.

Not a nawk on awk (pun intended) or socat, just a reply to the parent's comment.

This is functional and uninteresting.

For those who were drawn to ''awk'' in the title it is probably uninteresting. For those who were drawn to ''simple web server'', it is likely of some interest.

There are 1000 simple web servers. That part was never interesting to anyone interesting themselves.

If it had been "process some records with awk" that too would have been uninteresting even though it said awk.

"requires python"

Which in a way is somehow worse :P

in many ways

Yes, for some that would be a show-stopper. It is a nice one-line web service string, but should probably be run thusly:

  nohup python -m http.server 8080 2>/dev/null &

Nothing is interesting about overrated Python though

Ubiquitous, omnipresent, consistently rated in the top 2 or 3 most used computer languages. You don't like it, fine.

Apparently not fine. Are you about to cry?

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