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2.4 Invoking uudecode
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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)'.

   This section was generated by *AutoGen*, using the `agtexi-cmd'
template and the option descriptions for the `uudecode' program.  This
software is released under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or
later.

uudecode usage

uudecode help/usage (`--help')

uudecode output-file

output-file option (-o)

uudecode ignore-chmod

ignore-chmod option (-c)

uudecode config

presetting/configuring uudecode

uudecode exit status

exit status

uudecode Bugs

Bugs

uudecode Standards

Standards

uudecode See Also

See Also