This is the automatically generated usage text for uuencode.
The text printed is the same whether selected with the help option
(--help) or the more-help option (--more-help). more-help will print
the usage text by passing it through a pager program.
more-help is disabled on platforms without a working
fork(2) function. The PAGER environment variable is
used to select the program, defaulting to more. Both will exit
with a status code of 0.
uuencode (GNU sharutils) - encode a file into email friendly text - Ver. 4.13.3
USAGE: uuencode [ -<flag> | --<name> ]... [ in-file ] output-name
-m, --base64 convert using base 64
-e, --encode-file-name encode the output file name
-v, --version[=arg] Output version information and exit
-h, --help Display extended usage information and exit
-!, --more-help Extended usage information passed thru pager
-R, --save-opts[=arg] Save the option state to a config file
-r, --load-opts=str Load options from a config file
- disabled as --no-load-opts
- may appear multiple timess
Options are specified by doubled hyphens and their name or by a single
hyphen and the flag character.
The following option preset mechanisms are supported:
- reading file $HOME/.sharrc
``uuencode'' is used to create an ASCII representation of a file that can
be sent over channels that may otherwise corrupt the data. Specifically,
email cannot handle binary data and will often even insert a character when
the six character sequence "\nFrom " is seen.
``uuencode'' will read ``in-file'' if provided and otherwise read data from
standard in and write the encoded form to standard out. The output will
begin with a header line for use by ``uudecode'' giving it the resulting
suggested file ``output-name'' and access mode. If the ``output-name'' is
specifically ``/dev/stdout'', then ``uudecode'' will emit the decoded file
to standard out.
``Note'': ``uuencode'' uses buffered input and assumes that it is not hand
typed from a tty. The consequence is that at a tty, you may need to hit
Ctl-D several times to terminate input.
please send bug reports to: bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org