Linux uuencode Command

The Linux uuencode command is used to decode files that have been encoded with uuencode.

Early on, many Unix systems' transmission protocols could only transmit 7-bit characters and did not support binary files. Since Chinese text files use 8-bit characters, they could not be transmitted completely to another machine. The uuencode command converts binary files into 7-bit files, which can be transmitted to another machine and then decoded with uudecode. This is most commonly used for transmitting binary files via email. Encoded uuencode data starts with "begin" and ends with "end".

Syntax

compress [required parameters] [optional parameters] [directory or file]

Parameter Description:

Required Parameters:

None

Optional Parameters:

h Display help information
v Display version information

Example

Decoding a file

# uuencode test.uud

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