gmime-uuencode(1) [debian man page]

GMIME-UUENCODE(1)						   User Commands						 GMIME-UUENCODE(1)

NAME

       gmime-uuencode - encode a binary file to a text stream

SYNOPSIS

       gmime-uuencode [options] [ file ] name

DESCRIPTION

       gmime-uuencode  encodes	file  to  a  text  stream and emits that stream to standard output.  If file is not indicated on the command line,
       gmime-uuencode reads from standard input instead.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      display help and exit

       -v, --version
	      display version and exit

       -m, --base64
	      use RFC1521 base64 encoding

AUTHOR

       gmime-uuencode was written by Jeffrey Stedfast.	This manual page was written by Daniel Kahn Gillmor  for  the  Debian  Project	(with  the
       assistance of help2man), but may be used by others.

LICENSE

       gmime-uuencode  and this manual page are both licensed under the LGPL, version 2.1 or later.  On Debian systems, please see /usr/share/com-
       mon-licenses/LGPL-2.1

SEE ALSO

       gmime-uudecode(1)

gmime-uuencode - GMime 2.6.4					   January 2012 						 GMIME-UUENCODE(1)

uuencode(1)						      General Commands Manual						       uuencode(1)

NAME

       uuencode - encode a binary file

       uudecode - decode a file created by uuencode

SYNOPSIS

       uuencode [-m] [ file ] name

       uudecode [-o outfile] [ 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 encoded version to the standard output.  The encoding uses only print-
       ing ASCII characters and includes the mode of the file and the operand name for use by uudecode.  If name is /dev/stdout the result will be
       written to standard output.  By default the standard UU encoding format will be used.  If the option -m is given on the command line base64
       encoding is used instead.

       Uudecode transforms uuencoded files (or by default, the standard input) into the original form.	The resulting file is named name (or  out-
       file  if the -o option is given) and will have the mode of the original file except that setuid and execute bits are not retained.  If out-
       file or name is /dev/stdout the result will be written to standard output.  Uudecode ignores any leading and trailing lines.   The  program
       can automatically decide which of the both supported encoding schemes are used.

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)

STANDARDS

       This implementation is compliant with P1003.2b/D11.

BUGS

       If more than one file is given to uudecode and the -o option is given or more than one name in the encoded files are the same the result is
       probably not what is expected.

       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).

HISTORY

       The uuencode command appeared in BSD 4.0.

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