A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files
woof [options] file
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.
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
woof was written by Simon Budig <[email protected]>
This manual page was written by Andrea Colangelo <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).