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| 33.\" 34.Dd June 6, 1993 35.Dt UUENCODE 1 36.Os BSD 4 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm uuencode , 39.Nm uudecode 40.Nd encode/decode a binary file 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.Nm uuencode 43.Op Ar file 44.Ar name 45.Nm uudecode | 34.\" 35.Dd June 6, 1993 36.Dt UUENCODE 1 37.Os BSD 4 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm uuencode , 40.Nm uudecode 41.Nd encode/decode a binary file 42.Sh SYNOPSIS 43.Nm uuencode 44.Op Ar file 45.Ar name 46.Nm uudecode |
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| 46.Op Ar file ... 47.Sh DESCRIPTION 48.Nm Uuencode 49and 50.Nm uudecode 51are used to transmit binary files over transmission mediums 52that do not support other than simple 53.Tn ASCII --- 17 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 71.Em uuencoded 72files (or by default, the standard input) into the original form. 73The resulting file is named 74.Ar name 75and will have the mode of the original file except that setuid 76and execute bits are not retained. 77.Nm Uudecode 78ignores any leading and trailing lines. | 48.Op Ar file ... 49.Sh DESCRIPTION 50.Nm Uuencode 51and 52.Nm uudecode 53are used to transmit binary files over transmission mediums 54that do not support other than simple 55.Tn ASCII --- 17 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 73.Em uuencoded 74files (or by default, the standard input) into the original form. 75The resulting file is named 76.Ar name 77and will have the mode of the original file except that setuid 78and execute bits are not retained. 79.Nm Uudecode 80ignores any leading and trailing lines. |
| 81.Pp 82The following options are available for 83.Nm uudecode : 84.Bl -tag -width ident 85.It Fl c 86Decode more than one uuencode'd file from 87.Ar file 88if possible. 89.It Fl p 90Decode 91.Ar file 92and write output to standard output. |
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| 79.Sh EXAMPLES 80The following example packages up a source tree, compresses it, 81uuencodes it and mails it to a user on another system. 82When 83.Nm uudecode 84is run on the target system, the file ``src_tree.tar.Z'' will be 85created which may then be uncompressed and extracted into the original 86tree. 87.Pp 88.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact 89tar cf \- src_tree \&| compress \&| 90uuencode src_tree.tar.Z \&| mail sys1!sys2!user 91.Ed | 93.Sh EXAMPLES 94The following example packages up a source tree, compresses it, 95uuencodes it and mails it to a user on another system. 96When 97.Nm uudecode 98is run on the target system, the file ``src_tree.tar.Z'' will be 99created which may then be uncompressed and extracted into the original 100tree. 101.Pp 102.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact 103tar cf \- src_tree \&| compress \&| 104uuencode src_tree.tar.Z \&| mail sys1!sys2!user 105.Ed |
| 106 107The following example unpack all uuencode'd 108files from your mailbox into your current working directory. 109.Pp 110.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact 111uudecode -c < $MAIL 112.Ed 113 114The following example extract a compress'ed tar 115archive from your mailbox 116.Pp 117.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact 118uudecode -p < $MAIL | zcat | tar xfv - 119.Ed |
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| 92.Sh SEE ALSO 93.Xr compress 1 , 94.Xr mail 1 , 95.Xr uucp 1 , 96.Xr uuencode 5 97.Sh BUGS 98The encoded form of the file is expanded by 35% (3 bytes become 4 plus 99control information). 100.Sh HISTORY 101The 102.Nm 103command appeared in 104.Bx 4.0 . | 120.Sh SEE ALSO 121.Xr compress 1 , 122.Xr mail 1 , 123.Xr uucp 1 , 124.Xr uuencode 5 125.Sh BUGS 126The encoded form of the file is expanded by 35% (3 bytes become 4 plus 127control information). 128.Sh HISTORY 129The 130.Nm 131command appeared in 132.Bx 4.0 . |