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).