RECEIVE(1)

💖 RECEIVE 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the receive manual page, from the General Commands Manual section 1 🎀 — this is the one that pulls files out of the sendfile spool, and I'm gonna walk you through every single flag like we're texting at 2am. no cap. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

receive — receive files from the sendfile spool 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

receive [ -d ] [ -r ] [ -k ] [ -P ] [ -S ] [ -Z spool ] [ -q ] [ -ffrom
] file [...]
receive -n [ -d ] [ -r ] [ -k ] [ -P ] [ -S ] [ -Z spool ] [ -q ]
file-number [...]
receive [ -s ] [ -l ] [ -L ] [ -R ] [ -ffrom ]
receive -b user[@host] [ -k ] [ -f"from" ] file [...]
receive -b user[@host] [ -k ] [ -f"from" ] -n file-number [...]
receive -b user[@host] [ -k ] -a

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so receive grabs files out of the sendfile spool — specifically the ones that got sent to you. like, they're yours, they've been waiting, it's giving "your package arrived" energy 📦✨

if there's already a file with the same name sitting there, the tool is gonna ask you — do you wanna overwrite it, or rename it? your call, main character 💅

wildcards you're allowed to use in file names are:

• *
• ?
• [abc]
• [^abc]

⚠️ CAUTION: bestie listen — you have to put wildcards and other special characters in ´´ quotes to hide them from interpretation by your shell. fr fr, if you don't, your shell will eat them before receive even sees them and everything is chaos 😭

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -n — receive file number(s) 🔢
• -d — delete instead of receive 🗑️ (yes, you can just delete, iconic)
• -a — receive (or delete or bounce) all files 👑
• -r — rename before receiving ✏️
• -k — keep files in spool after receiving 🙈 (they stay put, no theft)
• -P — pipe files to stdout 🚰
• -S — receive only pgp-signed files 🔐
• -s — list files in short format ⚡
• -l — list files 📋
• -L — list files and look inside archives, too 📂🫶
• -R — renumber files in spool 🔁
• -b — bounce (forward) files to another recipient 🏓
• -q — quiet mode: no questions asked 🤐
• -fuser — all actions refer only to files from this user 🎯
• -Z spool — specify an alternate spool directory 📁

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✨ EXAMPLES ✨

receive -L list all files in long format.

receive 'blubb*' receive all files starting with string "blubb".

receive -daf microsoft.com delete all files from microsoft.com sites.

receive -b framstag@bofh '*.jpg' bounce all *.jpg-files to framstag@bofh.

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✨ FILES ✨

• /var/spool/sendfile — The sendfile spool directory. 🏠
• /var/spool/sendfile/$USER/log — A log of the last transfers. 📜
• /etc/sendfile.deny — Users which are not allowed to receive files or messages (set by root). 🚫

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• sendfile(1).

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

Ulli Horlacher — framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de 🫶

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and that's the whole page, bestie! this one came from the 3rd Berkeley Distribution, and yeah it's the RECEIVE(1) manual — so you know it's legit. go receive those files, you absolute icon 💖✨🎀