uudecode − decode an encoded file
uudecode [−flags] [−flag [value]] [−−option-name[[=| ]value]] [<file>...]
If no file(s) are provided, then standard input is decoded.
uudecode transforms uuencoded files into their original form.
The encoded file(s) may be specified on the command line, or one may be read from standard input. The output file name is specified in the encoded file, but may be overridden with the -o option. It will have the mode of the original file, except that setuid and execute bits are not retained. If the output file is specified to be /dev/stdout or -, the result will be written to standard output. If there are multiple input files and the second or subsquent file specifies standard output, the decoded data will be written to the same file as the previous output. Don’t do that.
uudecode ignores any leading and trailing lines. It looks for a line that starts with "begin" and proceeds until the end-of-encoding marker is found. The program determines from the header line of the encoded file which of the two supported encoding schemes was used and whether or not the output file name has been encoded with base64 encoding. See uuencode(5).
−o file, −−output−file=file direct output to file.
If specified,
decoded data are written to this file. When multiple
inputs are specified on the command line, this option cannot
be
specified. All decoded data must be written to the file name
encoded
in the data.
−c, −−ignore−chmod ignore fchmod(3P) errors.
By default, if
the output file permissions cannot be changed to the
permissions specified in the encoded data, the file will not
be written
out and execution stops. This option will cause that error
to be
ignored. The resulting file will have all the data, but the
incorrect
mode settings.
fchmod()
errors are also ignored if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set in
the
environment. RE:
http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=635
A warning is always emitted when fchmod() fails.
−h, −−help Display usage information and exit.
−!, −−more−help Pass the extended usage information through a pager.
−R
[cfgfile], −−save−opts
[=cfgfile] Save the option state to cfgfile.
The default is the last configuration file listed in
the OPTION PRESETS
section, below. The command will exit after updating the
config file.
−r
cfgfile,
−−load−opts=cfgfile,
−−no−load−opts Load options
from
cfgfile. The no−load−opts form will
disable the loading of earlier
config/rc/ini files.
−−no−load−opts is handled
early, out of order.
−v
[{v|c|n −−version
[{v|c|n}]}] Output version of program and exit.
The default mode is ‘v’, a simple version. The
‘c’ mode will print
copyright information and ‘n’ will print the
full copyright notice.
Any option that is not marked as not presettable may be preset by loading values from configuration ("RC" or ".INI") file(s). The file "$HOME/.sharrc" will be used, if present.
This implementation is compliant with P1003.2b/D11.
See OPTION PRESETS for configuration files.
One of the
following exit values will be returned:
0 (EXIT_SUCCESS) Successful program execution.
1 (EXIT_OPTION_ERROR) The command options were misconfigured.
2 (EXIT_INVALID)
(warning) One or more input files contained no valid
data
4 (EXIT_NO_INPUT) (warning) The specified input file was not found
8
(EXIT_NO_OUTPUT) The specified output file could not be
created
(error); or else one of the output files could not be
written or its
access mode could not be changed (warnings). The
accompanying
message(s) will distinguish.
9 (EXIT_NO_MEM) No process memory available
66 (EX_NOINPUT) A specified configuration file could not be loaded.
70 (EX_SOFTWARE)
libopts had an internal operational error. Please
report it to [email protected]. Thank
you.
The exit status
codes are (mostly) warning codes. As such, each code
is "or"−ed into the final exit code as the
input files are processed.
For example, an exit code of ’6’ is not listed
above. It is the sum of
EXIT_INVALID and EXIT_NO_INPUT. It would mean
that at least one input
file contained invalid data and also at least one input file
could not
be found at all.
uuencode(1), uuencode(5)
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright (C) 1994-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. all rights reserved. This program is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later.
Please put sharutils in the subject line for emailed bug reports. It helps to spot the message.
If more than one name in the encoded files are the same, or if the second or following input files specifies standard output for the output file, then the result is probably not what is expected. Specifically, standard output will be appended to and named output files will be replaced.
Please send bug reports to: [email protected]
This manual page was AutoGen-erated from the uudecode option definitions.