UUCP(1C)                                                              UUCP(1C)


NAME
       uucp - unix to unix copy

SYNOPSIS
       uucp  [  -acCdfmr  ]  [  -nuser  ]  [ -ggrade ] [ -sspool ] [ -xdebug ]
       source-file....  destination-file

DESCRIPTION
       Uucp copies files named by the source-file arguments  to  the  destina‐
       tion-file  argument.  A file name may be a pathname on your machine, or
       may have the form

              system-name!pathname

       where ‘system-name’ is taken from a list  of  system  names  that  uucp
       knows  about.  Shell metacharacters ?*[] appearing in the pathname part
       will be expanded on the appropriate system.

       Pathnames may be one of:

       (1)    a full pathname;

       (2)    a pathname preceded by ~user; where user  is  a  userid  on  the
              specified system and is replaced by that user’s login directory;

       (3)    a pathname prefixed by ~, where ~ is expanded into the  system’s
              public directory (usually /usr/spool/uucppublic);

       (4)    a  partial pathname, which is prefixed by the current directory.

       If the result is an erroneous pathname for the remote system, the  copy
       will  fail.   If  the destination-file is a directory, the last part of
       the source-file name is used.

       Uucp preserves execute permissions across the  transmission  and  gives
       0666 read and write permissions (see chmod(2)).

       The following options are interpreted by uucp.

       -a     Avoid  doing  a  getwd  to find the current directory.  (This is
              sometimes used for efficiency.)

       -c     Use the source file when copying out  rather  than  copying  the
              file to the spool directory.  (This is the default.)

       -C     Copy  the  source  file  to the spool directory and transmit the
              copy.

       -d     Make all necessary directories for the file copy.  (This is  the
              default.)

       -f     Do not make intermediate directories for the file copy.

       -ggrade
              Grade is a single letter/number; lower ASCII sequence characters
              will cause a job to be transmitted earlier during  a  particular
              conversation.   Default  is  ‘n’.  By way of comparison, uux(1C)
              defaults to ‘A’; mail is usually sent at ‘C’.

       -m     Send mail to the requester when the copy is complete.

       -nuser Notify user on remote system (i.e., send user mail) that a  file
              was sent.

       -r     Do not start the transfer, just queue the job.

       -sspool
              Use spool as the spool directory instead of the default.

       -xdebug
              Turn on the debugging at level debug.

FILES
       /usr/spool/uucp - spool directory
       /usr/lib/uucp/* - other data and program files

SEE ALSO
       uux(1C), mail(1)

       D. A. Nowitz and M. E. Lesk, A Dial-Up Network of UNIX Systems.

       D. A. Nowitz, Uucp Implementation Description.

WARNING
       The  domain  of remotely accessible files can (and for obvious security
       reasons, usually should) be severely restricted.  You will very  likely
       not be able to fetch files by pathname; ask a responsible person on the
       remote system to send them to you.  For the same reasons you will prob‐
       ably not be able to send files to arbitrary pathnames.

BUGS
       All  files  received  by  uucp  will be owned by the uucp administrator
       (usually UID 5).

       The -m option will only work sending files or receiving a single  file.
       (Receiving  multiple  files  specified by special shell characters ?*[]
       will not activate the -m option.)

       At present uucp cannot copy to a system several "hops" away, that is, a
       command of the form

            uucp myfile system1!system2!system3!yourfile

       is not permitted. Use uusend(1C) instead.

       When  invoking  uucp from csh(1), the ‘!’ character must be prefixed by
       the ‘\’ escape to inhibit csh’s history mechanism. (Quotes are not suf‐
       ficient.)

       Uucp  refuses  to  copy  a  file  that  does  not  give  read access to
       ‘‘other’’; that is, the file must have at least 0444 modes.


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