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6 uucp - unix to unix copy
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9 uucp [ -acCdfmr ] [ -nuser ] [ -ggrade ] [ -sspool ] [ -xdebug ]
10 source-file.... destination-file
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13 Uucp copies files named by the source-file arguments to the destina‐
14 tion-file argument. A file name may be a pathname on your machine, or
15 may have the form
16 system-name!pathname
18 where `system-name' is taken from a list of system names that uucp
20 knows about. Shell metacharacters ?*[] appearing in the pathname part
21 will be expanded on the appropriate system.
22 Pathnames may be one of:
24 (1) a full pathname;
26 (2) a pathname preceded by ~user; where user is a userid on the
28 specified system and is replaced by that user's login directory;
29 (3) a pathname prefixed by ~, where ~ is expanded into the system's
31 public directory (usually /usr/spool/uucppublic);
32 (4) a partial pathname, which is prefixed by the current directory.
34 If the result is an erroneous pathname for the remote system, the copy
36 will fail. If the destination-file is a directory, the last part of
37 the source-file name is used.
38 Uucp preserves execute permissions across the transmission and gives
40 0666 read and write permissions (see chmod(2)).
41 The following options are interpreted by uucp.
43 -a Avoid doing a getwd to find the current directory. (This is
45 sometimes used for efficiency.)
46 -c Use the source file when copying out rather than copying the
48 file to the spool directory. (This is the default.)
49 -C Copy the source file to the spool directory and transmit the
51 copy.
52 -d Make all necessary directories for the file copy. (This is the
54 default.)
55 -f Do not make intermediate directories for the file copy.
57 -ggrade
59 Grade is a single letter/number; lower ASCII sequence characters
60 will cause a job to be transmitted earlier during a particular
61 conversation. Default is `n'. By way of comparison, uux(1C)
62 defaults to `A'; mail is usually sent at `C'.
63 -m Send mail to the requester when the copy is complete.
65 -nuser Notify user on remote system (i.e., send user mail) that a file
67 was sent.
68 -r Do not start the transfer, just queue the job.
70 -sspool
72 Use spool as the spool directory instead of the default.
73 -xdebug
75 Turn on the debugging at level debug.
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78 /usr/spool/uucp - spool directory
79 /etc/uucp/* - data and configuration files
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82 uux(1C), mail(1)
83 D. A. Nowitz and M. E. Lesk, A Dial-Up Network of UNIX Systems.
85 D. A. Nowitz, Uucp Implementation Description.
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89 The domain of remotely accessible files can (and for obvious security
90 reasons, usually should) be severely restricted. You will very likely
91 not be able to fetch files by pathname; ask a responsible person on the
92 remote system to send them to you. For the same reasons you will prob‐
93 ably not be able to send files to arbitrary pathnames.
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96 All files received by uucp will be owned by the uucp administrator
97 (usually UID 5).
98 The -m option will only work sending files or receiving a single file.
100 (Receiving multiple files specified by special shell characters ?*[]
101 will not activate the -m option.)
102 At present uucp cannot copy to a system several "hops" away, that is, a
104 command of the form
105 uucp myfile system1!system2!system3!yourfile
107 is not permitted. Use uusend(1C) instead.
109 When invoking uucp from csh(1), the `!' character must be prefixed by
111 the `\' escape to inhibit csh's history mechanism. (Quotes are not suf‐
112 ficient.)
113 Uucp refuses to copy a file that does not give read access to
115 ``other''; that is, the file must have at least 0444 modes.
1167th Edition April 24, 1986 UUCP(1)