.TH UUCP 1C "18 January 1983"
uucp, uulog \- unix to unix copy
source-file ... destination-file
copies files named by the source-file arguments
to the destination-file argument.
A file name may be a path name on your machine, or may
where `system-name' is taken from a list of system names
Shell metacharacters ?*[] appearing in the pathname part
will be expanded on the appropriate system.
is a userid on the specified system
and is replaced by that user's login directory;
anything else is prefixed by the current directory.
If the result is an erroneous pathname for the remote system
If the destination-file is a directory, the last part of the
source-file name is used.
destination is inaccessible to
data is copied to a spool directory and the user
preserves execute permissions across the transmission
and gives 0666 read and write permissions (see
The following options are interpreted by
Make all necessary directories for the file copy.
Use the source file when copying out rather than
copying the file to the spool directory.
Send mail to the requester when the copy is complete.
`/usr/spool/uucp/LOGFILE' by gathering
information from partial log files named `/usr/spool/uucp/LOG.*.?'.
It removes the partial log files.
to print logging information:
Print information about work involving system
Print information about work done for the specified
/usr/spool/uucp - spool directory
/usr/lib/uucp/* - other data and program files
.I Uucp Implementation Description
The domain of remotely accessible files can
(and for obvious security reasons, usually should)
You will very likely not be able to fetch files
ask a responsible person on the remote system to
For the same reasons you will probably not be able
to send files to arbitrary pathnames.
The \-m option will only work sending files or receiving
(Receiving multiple files specified by special shell
characters ?*[] will not activate