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authorMike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>2002-01-27 18:21:23 +0000
committerMike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>2002-01-27 18:21:23 +0000
commitc3751af262dd81dfd5fdb03c1349fa81408ca595 (patch)
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-rw-r--r--usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.121
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.1 b/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.1
index 4a2454d734fa..25d0bf82a69b 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 ,