How does one echo data to a socket under BSD?

[jsvg]

In linux, I have a utility called "socat" that can pipe data to a unix socket. For example:

echo "disable server foo/bar" | socat unix-connect:/var/run/haproxy/admin.sock stdio

When we do rolling deployments, the script disables traffic to the server that's being restarted by executing the above command. After moving HAProxy to pfsense/freebsd, we are scratching our heads for an equivalent utility available in freebsd.

Any help appreciated!

[doktornotor]

Something wrong with nc?

echo "disable server foo/bar" | nc -U /path/to/socket

[jsvg]

THANK YOU!!!