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uuencode

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
OPTION PRESETS
STANDARDS
FILES
EXIT STATUS
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
AUTHORS
COPYRIGHT
BUGS
NOTES

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 "0rom " 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.

HISTORY

The uuencode command first appeared in BSD 4.0.

AUTHORS

Free Software Foundation, Inc.

COPYRIGHT

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.