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- UUENCODE(1) BSD Reference Manual UUENCODE(1)
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- NAME
- uuencode, uudecode - encode/decode a binary file
-
- SYNOPSIS
- uuencode [file] name
- uudecode [file ...]
-
- DESCRIPTION
- Uuencode and uudecode are used to transmit binary files over transmission
- mediums that do not support other than simple ASCII data.
-
- Uuencode reads file (or by default the standard input) and writes an en-
- coded version to the standard output. The encoding uses only printing
- ASCII characters and includes the mode of the file and the operand name
- for use by uudecode.
-
- Uudecode transforms uuencoded files (or by default, the standard input)
- into the original form. The resulting file is named name and will have
- the mode of the original file except that setuid and execute bits are not
- retained. Uudecode ignores any leading and trailing lines.
-
- EXAMPLES
- The following example packages up a source tree, compresses it, uuencodes
- it and mails it to a user on another system. When uudecode is run on the
- target system, the file ``src_tree.tar.Z'' will be created which may then
- be uncompressed and extracted into the original tree.
-
- tar cf - src_tree | compress |
- uuencode src_tree.tar.Z | mail sys1!sys2!user
-
- SEE ALSO
- compress(1), mail(1), uucp(1), uuencode(5), format(5)
-
- BUGS
- The encoded form of the file is expanded by 35% (3 bytes become 4 plus
- control information).
-
- HISTORY
- The uuencode command appeared in 4.0BSD.
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- 4th Berkeley Distribution June 6, 1993 1
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