NAME
uuto, uupick — public UNIX system to UNIX system file copy
SYNOPSIS
uuto
[options]
source-files destination
uupick
[-s
system]
DESCRIPTION
uuto
sends
source-files
to
destination.
uuto
uses the
uucp
facility to send files (see
uucp(1)),
while allowing the local system to control the file access.
A source-file name is a path name on your machine.
Destination has the form:
where
system
is taken from a list of system names that
uucp
knows about (see
uuname
in
uucp(1)
manual entry).
user
is the login name of someone on the specified system.
uuto
recognizes the following options:
- -p
Copy the source file into the spool directory immediately,
and send the copy.
- -m
Send mail to the requester when the copy is complete.
The files (or sub-trees if directories are specified) are sent to
PUBDIR
on
system,
where
PUBDIR
is the
UUCP
public directory
(/var/spool/uucppublic).
Specifically the files are sent to
PUBDIR
/receive/user/mysystem/files.
The recipient is notified by electronic mail
when the files arrive.
uupick
accepts or rejects the files transmitted to the recipient.
Specifically,
uupick
searches
PUBDIR
for files destined for the user.
For each entry (file or directory) found,
the following message is printed on the standard output:
from
system:
[file
file-name]
[dir
dirname]
?
uupick
then reads a line from the standard input
to determine the disposition of the file:
- <new-line>
Go on to next entry.
- d
Delete the entry.
- m [dir]
Move the entry to named directory
dir
(current directory is default).
Note that, if the current working directory is desired for
dir,
do
not
specify any parameter with
m.
A construction such as
m.
is erroneous, and results in loss of data.
- a [dir]
Same as
m
except move all the files sent from
system.
- p
Print the contents of the file.
- q
Stop.
- EOT (control-D)
Same as
q.
- !command
Escape to the shell to execute
command.
- *
Print a command summary.
uupick
invoked with the
-ssystem
option searches only the
PUBDIR
for files sent from
system.
WARNINGS
To send files that begin with a dot (such as
.profile)
the filename must contain a corresponding dot.
For example:
.profile,
.prof*,
and
.profil?
are correct, whereas
*prof*
and
?profile
are incorrect.
FILES
- PUBDIR
/var/spool/uucppublic
public directory
SEE ALSO
mail(1),
uuclean(1M),
uucp(1),
uustat(1),
uux(1).
- Tim O'Reilly and Grace Todino,
Managing UUCP and Usenet,
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. USA.
- Grace Todino and Dale Dougherty,
Using UUCP and Usenet,
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. USA.
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
uuto: SVID2, SVID3, XPG2, XPG3, XPG4
uupick: SVID2, SVID3, XPG2, XPG3, XPG4
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