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author | mike <mike@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-01-27 18:21:23 +0000 |
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committer | mike <mike@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-01-27 18:21:23 +0000 |
commit | 7e26e18582964ec5bb216ce4d68c1ce441d375d8 (patch) | |
tree | 6ae7c1c1eee23b4c5f19270e93685c55f5766902 /usr.bin/uuencode | |
parent | 9fdf88975bc0d2bd305b2bf4f93639a9e2dd2f3b (diff) | |
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Add -o option (POSIX.1-2001) to uudecode(1). Deprecate the -p option
(which allows one to redirect output to stdout); `-o /dev/stdout' is
recommended instead.
Submitted by: Joseph Mallett <jmallett@xMach.org>
MFC after: 2 weeks
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/uuencode')
-rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.1 | 21 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.1 b/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.1 index 4a2454d..25d0bf8 100644 --- a/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.1 +++ b/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.1 @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ .\" @(#)uuencode.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd June 6, 1993 +.Dd January 27, 2002 .Dt UUENCODE 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ .Nm uudecode .Op Fl cips .Op Ar +.Nm uudecode +.Op Fl i +.Fl o Ar output_file +.Op file .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm Uuencode and @@ -72,8 +76,11 @@ for use by transforms .Em uuencoded files (or by default, the standard input) into the original form. -The resulting file is named +The resulting file is named either .Ar name +or (depending on options passed to +.Nm uudecode ) +.Ar output_file and will have the mode of the original file except that setuid and execute bits are not retained. .Nm Uudecode @@ -88,10 +95,18 @@ Decode more than one uuencode'd file from if possible. .It Fl i Do not overwrite files. +.It Fl o Ar output_file +Output to +.Ar output_file +instead of +.Ar name . .It Fl p Decode .Ar file and write output to standard output. +(This option is deprecated in favor of +.Fl o Ar /dev/stdout +\&.) .It Fl s Do not strip output pathname to base filename. By default @@ -124,7 +139,7 @@ The following example extract a compress'ed tar archive from your mailbox .Pp .Bd -literal -offset indent -compact -uudecode -p < $MAIL | zcat | tar xfv - +uudecode -o /dev/stdout < $MAIL | zcat | tar xfv - .Ed .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr basename 1 , |