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uucp -- Command Spool files for transmission to other systems uucp [ -cCdfmr ] [-nuser] [-xactivity] source ... dest The command uucp spools every file source for copying to dest. source and dest can specify a remote system. uucp recognizes the following options: -C Copy the source file into spool directory; same as option -p. This is the default. -c Do not copy the source file into spool directory; rather, use the file itself. The file must be readable both by yourself and by the daemon uucico. If the file is removed before uucico processes it, the transmission of the file will fail. -d Create directories as required on the destination system. This is the default. -f Do not create any directories on the remote system. If directories do not already exist, abort copying the file. -ggrade Assign a grade (a single ASCII character, from `0' through `z') to indicate the importance of the file being transmitted. The lower the ASCII value of grade, the more important the file; thus, `0' is the highest grade and `z' the lowest. -I file Read the configuration for the remote system from file instead of from /usr/lib/uucp/sys, which is the default. -j Report the job's process identifier. If you wish, you can use this identifier with the command uustat to kill the job. -m Send mail to requester when the file is sent; report whether the job was executed successfully. -nuser Send mail to user on destination system when the file is received. user can contain a path. Note that user is relative to the destination machine, not to originating machine or to any intervening machine. For example, consider the command: uucp -nlepanto!fred myfile joe!/tmp Here, you are copying myfile from your machine into directory /tmp on machine joe, and sending notification to user fred on machine lepanto. If, however, machine joe does not know how to address machine lepanto, then fred will never be notified of the transfer. -p Copy the source file into spool directory; same as -C. This is the default. -R Copy directories recursively. -r Spool transfer request, but do not initiate uucico. -s file Write status upon completion of job into file. -u user Set user name to user. -W Do not prefix the file's name with the name of the current directory. -xactivity Log a given activity. These logs can help you debug problems with UUCP. uucp recognizes the following activities: abnormal Log abnormal events that occur while spooling a file for copying. config Log problems that arise with reading or interpreting the configuration files dial, port, and sys. execute Log each step uucp takes as it executes. spooldir Log activity that involved the UUCP spooling directory /usr/spool/uucp and its subdirectories. uucp writes its logging information into file /usr/spool/uucp/.Admin/audit.local. Examples The first example copies file foo to directory /bar on system george: uucp foo george!/bar The next example copies file /foo from system george into directory /tmp on your system: uucp george!/foo /tmp The next example copies file /foo from system george into file or directory /bar on system ivan: uucp george!/foo ivan!/bar Note that this assumes your system can talk to both george and ivan and that your system has permission to read file /foo on system george as well as to write file /bar on system ivan. The next example downloads files /foo and /bar from remote systems ivan and george into directory /tmp on your system: uucp ivan!/foo george!/bar /tmp The last example downloads file foo from system ivan via system george: uucp george!ivan!foo For an example of using the command find with uucp to spool files automatically, see the entry for find. Files /usr/lib/uucp/sys -- List of reachable systems /usr/spool/uucp/.Log/*/sitename -- uucp activities log files for sitename /usr/spool/uucp/sitename -- Spool directory for work See Also commands, mail, uucico, UUCP, uudecode, uuencode, uutouch, uuxqt Notes uucp was written by Ian Lance Taylor (ian@airs.com).