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).