On: Two pieces of code someone really ought to write

[gommm]

Is there anything similar in zsh? That could be quite helpful?

[gnosis → gommm]

There are two much more powerful tcp interfaces built in to zsh:

The zsh/net/tcp Module:

http://tinyurl.com/3alarxf

And zshtcpsys:

http://tinyurl.com/32z6bwe