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Old 03-31-2008
uuencode different in ksh and bash on solaris 8
We're trying to port code from bash to ksh and we run in the following error:

export IFS=""
tempzip=`unzip -p file.zip file | uuencode -`
echo $tempzip | uudecode -

The system is a solaris 8 server. The end result is an error in ksh:

Invalid character (0x...)

In bash it works.

The end results have different byte counts depending on the shell in which the code is executed.

locale's are the same, both "C"
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Old 04-01-2008
Don't use backticks and echo; those are the ones which will mess you up, not the actual uuencode. Both of those steps involve some amount of whitespace normalization and parsing of the strings you are handling there, whereas straight uuencode - | uudecode - would not involve any string handling by the shell itself.
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Old 04-01-2008
As it turns out the shell was interpreting escape characters.
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