truc - transfer big files through e-mail

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>

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

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

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