man truc (Commandes) - transfer big files through e-mail

NAME

truc - transfer big files through e-mail

SYNOPSIS

truc [-h] [-t val] [-l val] [[-p ext]...] [-report] [-r e-mail] [-m] [-n] [-v] [-d] [-q] [-z] [-bz] [-bz2] [-x] e-mail[,...] <file|dir>

DESCRIPTION

truc & untruc are two shell scripts that allow you to transfer big files through e-mail. They are using classical commands such as uuencode, tar, compress, csplit, etc. The word 'truc' (French) means: "Transfert Rapide Uuencode' Compresse'".

This document applies to truc 1.0.7

COMMAND LINE OPTIONS

Both truc and untruc support some command line options. For detailed description on untruc, view untruc(1).

Options to `truc'

-h
Display the help
-t val
Sleep val seconds between each packet sent (default=30)
-l val
val is the maximum number of lines for a packet (default 1500 lines, this is about 90 Kb per packet)
-k val
val is the maximum size of a packet in Kb (default 90 Kb)
-p val
Will mail only the specified packet (1, 2, 3, etc.) you can have more than one -p option in the command line. Warning: This option is not working when sending directories.
-report
Will mail a report (default=no report mailed)
-r e-mail
Will mail a receipt to e-mail upon 'untruc' completion.
-m
Will prompt the user for a mail to be sent with the packages
-n
Seems to do all the job BUT doesn't send anything
-v
Turn on verbose mode
-d
Turn on debug mode
-q
Send will be totally quiet (no message displayed)
-z
Force the use of compress instead of gzip
-bz
Force the use of bzip as compressor
-bz2
Force the use of bzip2 as compressor
-x
Upon reception, contents will be extracted as far as possible.
e-mail
E-mail address were you want to mail your file or directory. You can provide more than one address if you separate them by a comma
file|dir
Name of the file or directory you want to send

AUTHOR

Remco van de Meent <remco@debian.org> (this manual page for Debian GNU/Linux - original text from David Segonds)