osx man page for macbinary

APPLESINGLE(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 					    APPLESINGLE(1)

NAME
     applesingle, binhex, macbinary -- encode and decode files

SYNOPSIS
     <tool> probe file ...
     <tool> [decode] [-c] [-fv] [-C dir] [-o outfile] [file ...]
     <tool> -h | -V

     applesingle encode [-cfv] [-s suf] [-C dir] [-o outfile] file ...
     binhex encode [-R] [-cfv] [-s suf] [-C dir] [-o outfile] file ...
     macbinary encode [-t 1-3] [-cfv] [-s suf] [-C dir] [-o outfile] file ...

DESCRIPTION
     applesingle, binhex, macbinary are implemented as a single tool with multiple names.  All invocations support the three verbs encode, decode,
     and probe.

     If multiple files are passed to probe, the exit status will be non-zero only if all files contain data in the specified encoding.

OPTIONS
     -f, --force
	      perform the operation even if the output file already exists

     -h, --help
	      display version and usage, then quit

     -v, --verbose
	      be verbose

     -V, --version
	      display version, then quit

     -c, --pipe, --from-stdin, --to-stdout
	      For decode, read encoded data from the standand input.  For encode, write encoded data to the standard output.  Currently, "plain"
	      data must be written to and from specified filenames (see also mount_fdesc(8)).

     -C, --directory dir
	      create output files in dir

     -o, --rename name
	      Use name for output, overriding any stored or default name.  For encode, the appropriate suffix will be added to name.  -o implies
	      only one file to be encoded or decoded.

     -s, --suffix .suf
	      override the default suffix for the given encoding

     -R, --no-runlength-encoding
	      don't use BinHex runlength compression when encoding

     -t, --type 1-3
	      Specify MacBinary encoding type.	Type 1 is undesirable because it has neither a checksum nor a signature and is thus difficult to
	      recognize.

DIAGNOSTICS
     In general, the tool returns a non-zero exit status if it fails.

Darwin								 14 November 2005							    Darwin