woof(1) General Commands Manual woof(1)
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)