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33.\" $FreeBSD: head/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.1 95124 2002-04-20 12:18:28Z charnier $
| 33.\" $FreeBSD: head/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.1 96942 2002-05-19 11:17:17Z jmallett $
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34.\" 35.Dd January 27, 2002 36.Dt UUENCODE 1 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm uuencode ,
| 34.\" 35.Dd January 27, 2002 36.Dt UUENCODE 1 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm uuencode ,
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40.Nm uudecode
| 40.Nm uudecode , 41.Nm b64encode , 42.Nm b64decode
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41.Nd encode/decode a binary file 42.Sh SYNOPSIS 43.Nm 44.Op Fl m 45.Op Fl o Ar output_file 46.Op Ar file 47.Ar name 48.Nm uudecode 49.Op Fl cips 50.Op Ar 51.Nm uudecode 52.Op Fl i 53.Fl o Ar output_file
| 43.Nd encode/decode a binary file 44.Sh SYNOPSIS 45.Nm 46.Op Fl m 47.Op Fl o Ar output_file 48.Op Ar file 49.Ar name 50.Nm uudecode 51.Op Fl cips 52.Op Ar 53.Nm uudecode 54.Op Fl i 55.Fl o Ar output_file
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| 56.Nm b64encode 57.Op Fl o Ar output_file
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54.Op Ar file
| 58.Op Ar file
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| 59.Ar name 60.Nm b64decode 61.Op Fl i 62.Fl o Ar output_file 63.Op Ar file
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55.Sh DESCRIPTION 56The 57.Nm 58and 59.Nm uudecode 60utilities are used to transmit binary files over transmission mediums 61that do not support other than simple 62.Tn ASCII 63data.
| 64.Sh DESCRIPTION 65The 66.Nm 67and 68.Nm uudecode 69utilities are used to transmit binary files over transmission mediums 70that do not support other than simple 71.Tn ASCII 72data.
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| 73The 74.Nm b64encode 75utility is synonymous with 76.Nm 77with the 78.Fl m 79flag specified. 80The 81.Nm b64decode 82utility is synonymous with 83.Nm uudecode .
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64.Pp 65The 66.Nm 67utility reads 68.Ar file 69(or by default the standard input) and writes an encoded version 70to the standard output, or 71.Ar output_file 72if one has been specified. 73The encoding uses only printing 74.Tn ASCII 75characters and includes the 76mode of the file and the operand 77.Ar name 78for use by 79.Nm uudecode . 80.Pp 81The 82.Nm uudecode 83utility transforms 84.Em uuencoded 85files (or by default, the standard input) into the original form. 86The resulting file is named either 87.Ar name 88or (depending on options passed to 89.Nm uudecode ) 90.Ar output_file 91and will have the mode of the original file except that setuid 92and execute bits are not retained. 93The 94.Nm uudecode 95utility ignores any leading and trailing lines. 96.Pp 97The following options are available for 98.Nm : 99.Bl -tag -width ident 100.It Fl m 101Use the Base64 method of encoding, rather than the traditional 102.Nm 103algorithm. 104.It Fl o Ar output_file 105Output to 106.Ar output_file 107instead of standard output. 108.El 109.Pp 110The following options are available for 111.Nm uudecode : 112.Bl -tag -width ident 113.It Fl c 114Decode more than one uuencode'd file from 115.Ar file 116if possible. 117.It Fl i 118Do not overwrite files. 119.It Fl o Ar output_file 120Output to 121.Ar output_file 122instead of any pathname contained in the input data. 123.It Fl p 124Decode 125.Ar file 126and write output to standard output. 127.It Fl s 128Do not strip output pathname to base filename. 129By default 130.Nm uudecode 131deletes any prefix ending with the last slash '/' for security 132purpose. 133.El 134.Sh EXAMPLES 135The following example packages up a source tree, compresses it, 136uuencodes it and mails it to a user on another system. 137When 138.Nm uudecode 139is run on the target system, the file ``src_tree.tar.Z'' will be 140created which may then be uncompressed and extracted into the original 141tree. 142.Pp 143.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact 144tar cf \- src_tree \&| compress \&| 145uuencode src_tree.tar.Z \&| mail sys1!sys2!user 146.Ed 147.Pp 148The following example unpack all uuencode'd 149files from your mailbox into your current working directory. 150.Pp 151.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact 152uudecode -c < $MAIL 153.Ed 154.Pp 155The following example extract a compress'ed tar 156archive from your mailbox 157.Pp 158.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact 159uudecode -o /dev/stdout < $MAIL | zcat | tar xfv - 160.Ed 161.Sh SEE ALSO 162.Xr basename 1 , 163.Xr compress 1 , 164.Xr mail 1 , 165.Xr uucp 1 , 166.Xr uuencode 5 167.Sh BUGS 168Files encoded using the traditional algorithm are expanded by 35% (3 169bytes become 4 plus control information). 170.Sh HISTORY 171The 172.Nm uudecode 173and 174.Nm 175utilities appeared in 176.Bx 4.0 .
| 84.Pp 85The 86.Nm 87utility reads 88.Ar file 89(or by default the standard input) and writes an encoded version 90to the standard output, or 91.Ar output_file 92if one has been specified. 93The encoding uses only printing 94.Tn ASCII 95characters and includes the 96mode of the file and the operand 97.Ar name 98for use by 99.Nm uudecode . 100.Pp 101The 102.Nm uudecode 103utility transforms 104.Em uuencoded 105files (or by default, the standard input) into the original form. 106The resulting file is named either 107.Ar name 108or (depending on options passed to 109.Nm uudecode ) 110.Ar output_file 111and will have the mode of the original file except that setuid 112and execute bits are not retained. 113The 114.Nm uudecode 115utility ignores any leading and trailing lines. 116.Pp 117The following options are available for 118.Nm : 119.Bl -tag -width ident 120.It Fl m 121Use the Base64 method of encoding, rather than the traditional 122.Nm 123algorithm. 124.It Fl o Ar output_file 125Output to 126.Ar output_file 127instead of standard output. 128.El 129.Pp 130The following options are available for 131.Nm uudecode : 132.Bl -tag -width ident 133.It Fl c 134Decode more than one uuencode'd file from 135.Ar file 136if possible. 137.It Fl i 138Do not overwrite files. 139.It Fl o Ar output_file 140Output to 141.Ar output_file 142instead of any pathname contained in the input data. 143.It Fl p 144Decode 145.Ar file 146and write output to standard output. 147.It Fl s 148Do not strip output pathname to base filename. 149By default 150.Nm uudecode 151deletes any prefix ending with the last slash '/' for security 152purpose. 153.El 154.Sh EXAMPLES 155The following example packages up a source tree, compresses it, 156uuencodes it and mails it to a user on another system. 157When 158.Nm uudecode 159is run on the target system, the file ``src_tree.tar.Z'' will be 160created which may then be uncompressed and extracted into the original 161tree. 162.Pp 163.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact 164tar cf \- src_tree \&| compress \&| 165uuencode src_tree.tar.Z \&| mail sys1!sys2!user 166.Ed 167.Pp 168The following example unpack all uuencode'd 169files from your mailbox into your current working directory. 170.Pp 171.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact 172uudecode -c < $MAIL 173.Ed 174.Pp 175The following example extract a compress'ed tar 176archive from your mailbox 177.Pp 178.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact 179uudecode -o /dev/stdout < $MAIL | zcat | tar xfv - 180.Ed 181.Sh SEE ALSO 182.Xr basename 1 , 183.Xr compress 1 , 184.Xr mail 1 , 185.Xr uucp 1 , 186.Xr uuencode 5 187.Sh BUGS 188Files encoded using the traditional algorithm are expanded by 35% (3 189bytes become 4 plus control information). 190.Sh HISTORY 191The 192.Nm uudecode 193and 194.Nm 195utilities appeared in 196.Bx 4.0 .
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