Shell Programming and Scripting

/usr/bin/uuencode /tmp/a.csv a.csv > /tmp/a.txt
#a.csv is a comma separated variable file

wc -l < /tmp/a.txt

wc -l  /tmp/a.txt

wc -l a.txt
# the abouve count is not equal to the below
wc -l a.csv

cat > a.csv
aaaaaaa,aaaaaaaaa,aaaaaaaaaaaa,aaaaaaaaaaaa,aaaaaaaaaaaaa,aaaaaaaaaaaaa
bbbbbbbbbb,bbbbbbbbbbb,bbbbbbbbbbbb,bbbbbbbbbbbb,bbbbbbbbbb,bbbbbbbbb
cccccccccccccc,ccccccccccc,ccccccccccc,cccccccccccc,cccccccccccc,cccccccccc
ddddddddddddd,ddddddddddd,ddddddddd,ddddddddddddd,ddddddddd,ddddddddddd
CTRL+d

$ /usr/bin/uuencode /tmp/a.csv a.csv > /tmp/a.txt
$ wc -l a.csv a.txt
       4 a.csv
      10 a.txt
      14 total
$

uudecode -p b.txt | wc -l