GATHER(1)

NAME
gather - gather up the files in a directory for transmission

SYNOPSIS
gather [-s] source_dir [-d] dest_dir [-b] bytes [-f] file

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DESCRIPTION

It is often useful to collect all the files in a directory into one or more archives for transmission by mail. This program collects all the files in the source directory (default: current directory) and puts them into a shar archive. The shar archive is then compressed and uuencoded. An attempt is made to have the final .uue file be about the given size (default: 60K), but since gather cannot really predict how much shar will add to the file, how much compress will reduce the file, and how much uue will add again, the sizes can fluctuate. If the -f file flag is given, the archives will be given the names file_00.uue, file_01.uue etc. If -f is not given, the name of the source directory is used as the base name. Since 7 characters of suffix are appended, the base name should not exceed 7 characters.