Linux-64/uuencode
Package: WA2L/edrc 1.5.57
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 07 Feb 2015
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NAME
uuencode - encode a file into email friendly text
SYNOPSIS
uuencode [-flags] [-flag [value]] [--option-name[[=| ]value]] [<in-file>] <output-name>
DESCRIPTION
uuencode
is used to create an ASCII representation of a file
that can be sent over channels that may otherwise corrupt the data.
Specifically, email cannot handle binary data and will often even
insert a character when the six character sequence "rom " is seen.
uuencode
will read
in-file
if provided and otherwise
read data from standard in and write the encoded form to standard out.
The output will begin with a header line for use by uudecode
giving it the resulting suggested file
output-name
and access
mode. If the
output-name
is specifically
/dev/stdout,
then
uudecode
will emit the decoded file to standard out.
Note:
uuencode
uses buffered input and assumes that it
is not hand typed from a tty. The consequence is that at a tty, you
may need to hit Ctl-D several times to terminate input.
OPTIONS
- -m, --base64
-
convert using base64.
By default,
uuencode
will encode using the traditional
conversion. It is slower and less compact than base64.
The encoded form of the file is expanded by 37% for UU encoding
and by 35% for base64 encoding (3 bytes become 4 plus control
information).
- -e, --encode-file-name
-
encode the output file name.
Since output file names may contain characters that are not
handled well by various transmission modes, you may specify
that the
output-name
be base64 encoded as well.
(Traditional uuencoding of the file name is not supported.)
- -h,--help
-
Display usage information and exit.
- -!, --more-help
-
Pass the extended usage information through a pager.
- -R [cfgfile], --save-opts [=cfgfile]
-
Save the option state to
cfgfile.
The default is the
last
configuration file listed in the
OPTION PRESETS
section, below.
The command will exit after updating the config file.
- -r cfgfile, --load-opts=cfgfile, --no-load-opts
-
Load options from cfgfile.
The
no-load-opts
form will disable the loading
of earlier config/rc/ini files.
--no-load-opts
is handled early,
out of order.
- -v [{v|c|n --version [{v|c|n}]}]
-
Output version of program and exit. The default mode is `v', a simple
version. The `c' mode will print copyright information and `n' will
print the full copyright notice.
OPTION PRESETS
Any option that is not marked as not presettable may be preset
by loading values from configuration ("RC" or ".INI") file(s).
The file "$HOME/.sharrc" will be used, if present.
STANDARDS
This implementation is compliant with P1003.2b/D11.
FILES
See
OPTION PRESETS
for configuration files.
EXIT STATUS
One of the following exit values will be returned:
- 0 (EXIT_SUCCESS)
-
Successful program execution.
- 1 (EXIT_FAILURE)
-
The operation failed or the command syntax was not valid.
- 66 (EX_NOINPUT)
-
A specified configuration file could not be loaded.
- 70 (EX_SOFTWARE)
-
libopts had an internal operational error. Please report
it to autogen-users@lists.sourceforge.net. Thank you.
SEE ALSO
uudecode(1),
uuencode(4)
HISTORY
The uuencode command first appeared in BSD 4.0.
AUTHORS
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1994-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. all rights reserved.
This program is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later.
BUGS
Please put sharutils in the subject line for emailed bug
reports. It helps to spot the message.
Please send bug reports to: bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org
NOTES
This manual page was AutoGen-erated from the uuencode
option definitions.
This document was created by man2html
using the manual pages.
Time: 16:55:00 GMT, August 28, 2024