UUPICK(1)
π UUPICK(1) β the "go get ur mail" girlie π
ok so welcome to UUPICK(1), bestie β section 1 of the General Commands Manual, aka the part where we talk about actual commands you type with ur own two hands. this whole page is ur little group chat with uupick, and honestly? she's an icon, she's a legend, and she's here to hand u the files that uucp -t left sitting in the public directory like lil gifts πβ¨
πΈ NAME πΈ
uupick β get files stored in the public directory by uucp -t. π«Ά
β¨ SYNOPSIS β¨
uupick [-s system] [-x debug] [-I file]
that's it. that's the whole vibe check. three optional lil flags and ur off π
π¦ DESCRIPTION π¦
ok so picture this: uucp -t has been out there doing its thing, dropping files into the public directory like it's leaving lil sticky notes for u π₯Ί and uupick? she's the one who goes and gets them.
so, fr fr: uupick is a program that gets the files stored in the public directory by uucp -t. no cap. that's the whole job. she picks up. hence the name. it's giving "personal assistant but make it unix" π
π OPTIONS π
-s,--systemsystem β only consider files from the named system. like, if u only wanna hear from one specific friend, this is how u mute everybody else π-x,--debugdebug β set the debugging level. crank it up when u wanna know exactly what's going on in there π-I,--configfile β set the configuration file to use. tell her which config she's running with, bestie π-v,--versionβ print the software version and exit. the classic "who even r u" move πββοΈ--helpβ print a help screen and exit. ur safety net, ur comfort blanket, ur "wait what does this do again" button π
π BUGS π
None apparent.
(genuinely? iconic. not a single bug in sight. she ate and left no crumbs πβ¨)
π₯ SEE ALSO π₯
π AUTHOR π
This manual page is a quick write-up for Debian done by Kevin Kreamer <kkreamer@etherhogz.org>, by making a manpage out of uupick --help. so basically he took the --help output and gave it a glow-up so u could read it all cozy in ur terminal π§ thanks Kevin, ur a real one π«Ά
and that's the whole page, bestie!! that footer u see down there β that lil UUPICK(1) sitting all by itself in the General Commands Manual β that's just the page signing off like "k bye, love u, go pick up ur files" πβ¨π
π¦ where this page comes from
- debian bookworm: uucp 1.07-27+b2 Β· GPL-2.0-only
- debian trixie: uucp 1.07-30 Β· GPL-2.0-only
- ubuntu jammy: uucp 1.07-27build3 Β· GPL-2.0-only
- ubuntu noble: uucp 1.07-29 Β· GPL-2.0-only
- ubuntu questing: uucp 1.07-31
- ubuntu resolute: uucp 1.07-31build1 Β· GPL-2.0-only
- ubuntu stonking: uucp 1.07-31build1 Β· GPL-2.0-only
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms