uucp

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
       IEEE Std 1003.1-2001.

       Typical implementations of this utility require a  communications  line
       configured  to use the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001,
       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 sta-
       tus.

OPTIONS
       The uucp utility shall  conform  to  the  Base  Definitions  volume  of
       IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, 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  trans-
              fer.

       -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.
              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 interme-
       diate nodes in the route are willing to forward information.

       The shell pattern matching notation characters '?' , '*' , and  "[...]"
       appearing in pathname shall be expanded on the appropriate 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 specified, the
                  default is to  the  public  directory  (called  PUBDIR;  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
                     example, ~/dan/ as the destination  makes  the  directory
                     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  implementa-
       tion-defined.


STDIN
       Not used.

INPUT FILES
       The files to be copied are regular files.

       LC_COLLATE

              Determine the locale for the  behavior  of  ranges,  equivalence
              classes, and multi-character collating elements within bracketed
              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.

       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

COPYRIGHT
       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in  electronic  form
       from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition, Standard for Information Technology
       -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX),  The  Open  Group  Base
       Specifications  Issue  6,  Copyright  (C) 2001-2003 by the Institute of
       Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open  Group.  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.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .



IEEE/The Open Group                  2003                              UUCP(P)