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brew install copyparty v1.20.16 MIT

Portable file server

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Runtime dependencies

Build dependencies

GitHub topics

copyparty file-server file-sharing file-upload-server ftp-server nas-frontend tftp-server webdav-server

Links

Caveats

If you need to generate thumbnails for video/audio files:
  brew install ffmpeg
If you need to automatically create a CA and server-cert on startup:
  brew install cfssl
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