How do you create a socket?

Before you can use a socket to communicate with remote devices, the socket must be initialized with protocol and network address information. The constructor for the Socket class has parameters that specify the address family, socket type, and protocol type that the socket uses to make connections.

What is socket command in Linux?

socket() creates an endpoint for communication and returns a file descriptor that refers to that endpoint. The file descriptor returned by a successful call will be the lowest-numbered file descriptor not currently open for the process.