Netcat is missing

[SunboX]

I'm trying to tunnel SSH over Tor with Netcat, like explained here: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSSH/Cookbook/Proxies_and_Jump_Hosts#Tunneling_SSH_Over_Tor_with_Netcat

but I'm getting this exception message:

λ ssh -o ProxyCommand='nc --proxy-type socks5 --proxy localhost:9050 %h %p' [email protected]
/bin/sh: line 0: exec: nc: not found
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

How can I fix this?

PS: Using Putty, it works so far.

[MartiUK]

Are you using cygwin or bash included with cmder?

[SunboX]

That's a good question. I didn't change it, how can I see what I'm using?

[jankatins]

I think the problem is that nc isn't available in git for windows (at least on my system, there is no nc.exe)

[MartiUK]

Ah okay, you're probably using the default cmd task.
Yes, netcat isn't included with git for windows.

I'd look at integrating cygwin https://github.com/cmderdev/cmder/wiki/%5BWindows%5D-Integrating-Cygwin and installing/using netcat. Plus it's closer to a posix environment.