.\" @(#)uucp.1c 6.3 (Berkeley) 4/24/86
.TH UUCP 1C "April 24, 1986"
uucp \- 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 pathname 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;
is expanded into the system's public directory (usually /usr/spool/uucppublic);
a partial pathname, which 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
to find the current directory.
(This is sometimes used for efficiency.)
Use the source file when copying out rather than
copying the file to the spool directory.
Copy the source file to the spool directory and transmit
Make all necessary directories for the file copy.
Do not make intermediate directories for the file copy.
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,
defaults to `A'; mail is usually sent at `C'.
Send mail to the requester when the copy is complete.
on remote system (i.e., send
mail) that a file was sent.
Do not start the transfer, just queue the job.
as the spool directory instead of the default.
Turn on the debugging at level
/usr/spool/uucp - spool directory
/usr/lib/uucp/* - other data and program files
D. A. Nowitz and M. E. Lesk,
.IR "A Dial-Up Network of UNIX Systems" .
.IR "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.
will be owned by the uucp administrator (usually UID 5).
option will only work sending files or receiving
(Receiving multiple files specified by special shell
characters ?*[] will not activate
cannot copy to a system several "hops" away, that is, a command of
uucp myfile system1!system2!system3!yourfile
the `!' character must be prefixed by the `\e' escape to inhibit
history mechanism. (Quotes are not sufficient.)
refuses to copy a file that does not give read access to ``other'';
that is, the file must have at least 0444 modes.