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UUCP(1P)		   POSIX Programmer's Manual		      UUCP(1P)

PROLOG
       This  manual  page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.  The Linux
       implementation of this interface may differ (consult the	 corresponding
       Linux  manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may
       not be implemented on Linux.

NAME
       uucp — system-to-system copy

SYNOPSIS
       uucp [−cCdfjmr] [−n user] source-file... destination-file

DESCRIPTION
       The uucp utility shall copy files named by the source-file argument  to
       the  destination-file  argument.	 The  files  named  can be on local or
       remote systems.

       The uucp utility cannot guarantee support for all  character  encodings
       in  all circumstances. For example, transmission data may be restricted
       to 7 bits by the underlying network, 8-bit data and filenames need  not
       be  portable  to	 non-internationalized systems, and so on. Under these
       circumstances, it is recommended that only characters  defined  in  the
       ISO/IEC 646:1991	 standard  International Reference Version (equivalent
       to ASCII) 7-bit range of characters be used, and that  only  characters
       defined	in  the	 portable  filename  character	set be used for naming
       files.  The  protocol  for  transfer  of	 files	 is   unspecified   by
       POSIX.1‐2008.

       Typical	implementations	 of this utility require a communications line
       configured to use the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2008,  Chapter
       11,  General  Terminal Interface, but other communications means may be
       used. On systems where there  are  no  available	 communications	 means
       (either	temporarily or permanently), this utility shall write an error
       message describing the problem and exit with a non-zero exit status.

OPTIONS
       The uucp utility shall  conform	to  the	 Base  Definitions  volume  of
       POSIX.1‐2008, Section 12.2, Utility Syntax Guidelines.

       The following options shall be supported:

       −c	 Do not copy local file to the spool directory for transfer to
		 the remote machine (default).

       −C	 Force the copy of local files	to  the	 spool	directory  for
		 transfer.

       −d	 Make all necessary directories for the file copy (default).

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

       −j	 Write	the job identification string to standard output. This
		 job identification can be used by uustat to obtain the status
		 or terminate a job.

       −m	 Send mail to the requester when the copy is completed.

       −n user	 Notify user on the remote system that a file was sent.

       −r	 Do not start the file transfer; just queue the job.

OPERANDS
       The following operands shall be supported:

       destination-file, source-file
		 A  pathname of a file to be copied to, or from, respectively.
		 Either name can be a pathname on the local  machine,  or  can
		 have the form:

		     system-name!pathname

		 where	system-name  is taken from a list of system names that
		 uucp knows about.  The destination system-name can also be  a
		 list of names such as:

		     system-name!system-name!...!system-name!pathname

		 in  which  case,  an attempt is made to send the file via the
		 specified route to the destination. Care should be  taken  to
		 ensure	 that  intermediate  nodes in the route are willing to
		 forward information.

		 The shell pattern matching notation characters '?', '*',  and
		 "[...]" appearing in pathname shall be expanded on the appro‐
		 priate system.

		 Pathnames can be one of:

		  1. An absolute pathname.

		  2. A pathname preceded by ~user where user is a  login  name
		     on	 the  specified	 system and is replaced by that user's
		     login directory. Note that if an invalid login is	speci‐
		     fied, the default is to the public directory (called PUB‐
		     DIR; the actual location  of  PUBDIR  is  implementation-
		     defined).

		  3. A pathname preceded by ~/destination where destination is
		     appended to PUBDIR.

		     Note:     This  destination  is  treated  as  a  filename
			       unless  more than one file is being transferred
			       by this request or the destination is already a
			       directory.  To  ensure  that it is a directory,
			       follow the destination with a '/'.   For	 exam‐
			       ple, ~/dan/ as the destination makes the direc‐
			       tory PUBDIR/dan if it does not exist  and  puts
			       the requested files in that directory.

		  4. Anything else shall be prefixed by the current directory.

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

		 The  read,  write,  and execute permissions given by uucp are
		 implementation-defined.

STDIN
       Not used.

INPUT FILES
       The files to be copied are regular files.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       The following environment variables shall affect the execution of uucp:

       LANG	 Provide a default value for  the  internationalization	 vari‐
		 ables	that are unset or null. (See the Base Definitions vol‐
		 ume of POSIX.1‐2008, Section 8.2, Internationalization	 Vari‐
		 ables	for  the  precedence of internationalization variables
		 used to determine the values of locale categories.)

       LC_ALL	 If set to a non-empty string value, override  the  values  of
		 all the other internationalization variables.

       LC_COLLATE
		 Determine  the locale for the behavior of ranges, equivalence
		 classes, and multi-character collating elements within brack‐
		 eted filename patterns.

       LC_CTYPE	 Determine  the	 locale for the interpretation of sequences of
		 bytes of text data as characters (for example, single-byte as
		 opposed  to  multi-byte  characters  in  arguments  and input
		 files) and the behavior of character classes within bracketed
		 filename patterns (for example, "'[[:lower:]]*'").

       LC_MESSAGES
		 Determine the locale that should be used to affect the format
		 and contents  of  diagnostic  messages	 written  to  standard
		 error, and informative messages written to standard output.

       NLSPATH	 Determine the location of message catalogs for the processing
		 of LC_MESSAGES.

ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS
       Default.

STDOUT
       Not used.

STDERR
       The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.

OUTPUT FILES
       The output files (which may be on other	systems)  are  copies  of  the
       input files.

       If −m is used, mail files are modified.

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION
       None.

EXIT STATUS
       The following exit values shall be returned:

	0    Successful completion.

       >0    An error occurred.

CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS
       Default.

       The following sections are informative.

APPLICATION USAGE
       This  utility is part of the UUCP Utilities option and need not be sup‐
       ported by all implementations.

       The domain of remotely accessible files can (and for  obvious  security
       reasons usually should) be severely restricted.

       Note  that the '!'  character in addresses has to be escaped when using
       csh as a command interpreter because of its history  substitution  syn‐
       tax.  For ksh and sh the escape is not necessary, but may be used.

       As  noted  above,  shell	 metacharacters	 appearing  in	pathnames  are
       expanded on the appropriate system.  On	an  internationalized  system,
       this  is	 done  under  the  control of local settings of LC_COLLATE and
       LC_CTYPE.  Thus, care should be taken  when  using  bracketed  filename
       patterns,  as  collation	 and  typing rules may vary from one system to
       another. Also be aware that  certain  types  of	expression  (that  is,
       equivalence classes, character classes, and collating symbols) need not
       be supported on non-internationalized systems.

EXAMPLES
       None.

RATIONALE
       None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS
       None.

SEE ALSO
       mailx, uuencode, uustat, uux

       The Base Definitions volume of  POSIX.1‐2008,  Chapter  8,  Environment
       Variables,  Chapter 11, General Terminal Interface, Section 12.2, Util‐
       ity Syntax Guidelines

COPYRIGHT
       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in  electronic  form
       from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information Technology
       -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX),	The  Open  Group  Base
       Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the Institute of Electri‐
       cal and Electronics Engineers,  Inc  and	 The  Open  Group.   (This  is
       POSIX.1-2008  with  the	2013  Technical Corrigendum 1 applied.) In the
       event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and
       The  Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard
       is the referee document. The original Standard can be  obtained	online
       at http://www.unix.org/online.html .

       Any  typographical  or  formatting  errors that appear in this page are
       most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source
       files  to  man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.ker‐
       nel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

IEEE/The Open Group		     2013			      UUCP(1P)
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