truc1
Transfer big files through e-mail
Usage
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>}
Overview
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
Options
Both truc and untruc support some command line options. For detailed description on untruc, view untruc(1).
Options to `truc'
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-h -
Display the help
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-t val -
Sleep val seconds between each packet sent (default=30)
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-l val -
val is the maximum number of lines for a packet (default 1500 lines, this is about 90 Kb per packet)
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-k val -
val is the maximum size of a packet in Kb (default 90 Kb)
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-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.
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-report -
Will mail a report (default=no report mailed)
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-r e-mail -
Will mail a receipt to e-mail upon 'untruc' completion.
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-m -
Will prompt the user for a mail to be sent with the packages
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-n -
Seems to do all the job BUT doesn't send anything
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-v -
Turn on verbose mode
-
-d -
Turn on debug mode
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-q -
Send will be totally quiet (no message displayed)
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-z -
Force the use of compress instead of gzip
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-bz -
Force the use of bzip as compressor
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-bz2 -
Force the use of bzip2 as compressor
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-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
Releases
5 releases since Debian 2.1 (Slink); the text changed 1 time.
-bz2 since Debian 2.2 (Potato).