uuencode.md

uuencode

uudecode

POSIX 7.

Very inconvenient interfaces:

• must take input and output files
• the output contains MIME type lines
• decode requires those lines to be present

Example encode:

uuencode -m <(printf "a\n\0") /dev/stdout

Output:

begin-base64 600 /dev/stdout
YQoA
====

Decode:

uudecode -o /dev/stdout <(uuencode -m <(printf "a\0\n") /dev/stdout) | od -tx1

Output:

0000000 61 00 0a
0000003