BLUETOOTH-SENDTO(1)

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version 47.2 Β· 3 versions
, in alpine 3.24, arch rolling, centos-stream 10, debian trixie, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

πŸ’– BLUETOOTH-SENDTO πŸ’–

okay bestie, listen β€” this is bluetooth-sendto, a GTK application for transferring files over Bluetooth. yes, that Bluetooth. the little blue tooth that lives in your laptop and refuses to be normal. she's part of the gnome-bluetooth fam, and if you wanna go read the lore, it's over at https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeBluetooth πŸ¦‹


✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bluetooth-sendto [--device=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX [--name=NAME]] [file...]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so bluetooth-sendto pops open a dialog for transferring files over Bluetooth. that's the whole vibe. you point it at a device, you point it at some files, and it does the little wireless handoff thing. πŸ’…

she's part of gnome-bluetooth, so if you wanna see the whole crew, peep https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeBluetooth ✨


πŸŽ€ OPTIONS πŸŽ€

  • --device β€” define the device address to send the file(s) to. like, the actual XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX address. you gotta tell her who you're sending to, bestie, she can't read minds. πŸ‘‘
  • --name β€” define the device name to send the file(s) to. and listen β€” if you omit this one, it will be auto detected. so she'll figure it out herself. main character energy fr. ✨
  • file β€” the file(s) to send to the device. note the plural, she takes multiple, she's generous like that. 🫢 and if you omit it? a chooser will be displayed. so you get to browse. very demure, very mindful. πŸŽ€

πŸ’œ AUTHOR πŸ’œ

Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> β€” the icon who made this happen. respect. πŸ‘‘


πŸ“œ LICENSE πŸ“œ

okay this part is the legal tea, so let's be precise, no cap:

bluetooth-sendto is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

no warranty bestie, she said what she said 😭 read the license, it's giving "we tried our best and legally that's all we promised" πŸ’€

that's the whole page, you're all caught up ✨ go send someone a file over Bluetooth like the tech goddess you are πŸ’…

gnome-bluetooth Β· May 6, 2012 Β· bye bestie, ily, slay πŸ¦‹πŸ’–

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