---
name: "woof"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "woof"
version: "20091227-2.1"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/woof"
---

# woof(1)

A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

## NAME

**woof** - A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

## SYNOPSIS

**woof** \[*options*\] *file*

## DESCRIPTION

**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.

## OPTIONS

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

## AUTHOR

woof was written by Simon Budig \<simon@budig.de\>

This manual page was written by Andrea Colangelo \<warp10@ubuntu.com\>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).