debian man page for woof

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NAME
       woof - A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

SYNOPSIS
       woof [options] file

DESCRIPTION
       woof  is  a tool to copy files between hosts. It can serve a specified file on HTTP,just for a given number of times, and then shutdown. It
       can be easily used to share files across the computers on a net, and given that the other ends should have just a  browser,  it	can  share
       stuff between different operating system, or different devices (e.g.: a smartphone). It can also show a simple html form in order to upload
       a file.	commands.

OPTIONS
       A summary of options is included below.

       -h     Show summary of options.

       -i <ip_addr>
	      IP address to share the file

       -p <port>
	      Port to be used to share the file

       -c <count>
	      Number of times to share the file

       -z <dir>
	      Used on a directory, it creates a tarball with gzip compression

       -j <dir>
	      Used on a directory, it creates a tarball with bzip2 compression

       -Z <dir>
	      Used on a directory, it creates a tarball with ZIP compression

       -u <dir>
	      Used on a directory, it creates a tarball with no compression

       -s     Used to distribute woof itself

       -U     woof provides an upload form and allows uploading files

AUTHOR
       woof was written by Simon Budig <simon@budig.de>

       This manual page was written by Andrea Colangelo <warp10@ubuntu.com>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

							 Last Modified: September 12, 2010						   woof(1)