fexsend(1)

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🌸 fexsend(1) — the manual page, but make it a group chat 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to fexsend, a General Commands Manual moment. this is the CLI client for the F*EX service and i'm about to explain it to you so well that you'll be sending giant files like it's nothing. no cap. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

fexsend — CLI client for the F*EX service

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

fexsend [OPTIONS] file... [@] recipient...
fexsend [special options]
fexsend -f # recipient...
fexsend -x # [-C -k -D- K]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so F*EX stands for Frams' Fast File EXchange, and it's literally a service for sending big files — like large, huge, giant, the-whole-vibe files — from a user A to a user B. iconic behaviour honestly. 🦋

this manual page documents the fexsend command, briefly. it's giving "short and sweet but you'll still get it."

real talk tho: this manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program doesn't have a manual page. so Debian said "fine, we'll do it ourselves" and honestly? slay. 💖

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -v — runs fexsend in verbose mode. it will NOT stop talking. love that for it. 🗣️
  • -d — delete file on fex server
  • -c — compress file with gzip
  • -g — encrypt file with gpg
  • -m <limit> — limit throughput to limit kB/s. slow it down, bestie, it's not a race 🐢
  • -i <tag> — use ID data tag from ID file
  • -C <comment> — add comment to notification e-mail
  • -k <max> — keep file max days on fex server
  • -D — delay auto-delete after download (until next cleanup)
  • -K — no auto-delete after download. the file simply refuses to leave. main character energy 👑
  • -M — MIME-file (to be displayed in recipient's webbrowser)
  • -o — overwrite mode, do not resume
  • -a <archive> — put files in archive (.zip .7z .tar .tgz)
  • -s <stream> — read data from pipe and upload it with stream name

💫 special options 💫

  • -I — initialize ID file or show ID
  • -I <tag> — add alternate ID data (secondary logins) to ID file
  • -l — list sent files numbered (the # is needed for -f, -x and -d)
  • -f # — forward already uploaded file to another recipient
  • -x # — modify options -C -k -D -K for already uploaded file
  • -d # — delete file on fex server (# is the file number, see output from fexsend -l)
  • -Q — check quotas
  • -A — edit server address book (aliases)
  • -U — generate and show authorized URL
  • -H — show hints and tips
  • -V — show version

✨ EXAMPLES ✨

three little examples, all of them a vibe 🌈

fexsend visualization.mpg framstag@domain.example
fexsend -a images.zip *.jpg webmaster@domain.example,metoo
lshw | fexsend -s hardware.list admin@domain.example

✨ AUTHOR ✨

fexsend was written by Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> 🫶

this manual page was written by Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iuculano.it> and Michael Bussmann <debian@mb-net.net> for the Debian project (but may be used by others). sharing is caring, periodt. 💜

Copyright (C) 2006-2014 Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>.

License: Perl Artistic

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 💅✨

and for the cute sign-off: this is F*EX 20140902, dated 2014-09-12, and yeah fexsend(1) again because that's just how manpages do. bye babe, go send something huge 🌸🦋🎀

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