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Are you absolutely sure you want to run a telnet server at all? Use of a telnet server is not considered secure because it's not encrypted.
I'm guessing that what you really want is for the remote user to use telnet, but he never actually logs into a shell. Instead, you just want a custom script to run and spit some output back at the remote user. Is that right? I don't know how to do that purely with bash scripts, but it's easy to use any general purpose programming language to create a simple daemon program that listens to a TCP port and runs a script whenever someone connects to it.
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