PUUDECODE(1)

💅 PUUDECODE(1) 💅

okay so first things first — welcome to the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual, bestie 🫶 this little icon lives there, and honestly? it's giving "small script, big heart" energy.

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✨ NAME ✨

puudecode — it's literally a perl replacement for uudecode, no cap 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

puudecode inputfile

that's it. one argument. one file. we love a minimal queen 👑

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the vibe: uudecode reads a uuencoded inputfile, and then it writes the decoded string out to the file named inside the uuencoded string itself — not a filename you pick, the one hiding in the data, iykyk 💖

and it doesn't stop there, because she's thorough: it also changes the permissions to the mode given in the uuencoded string 🔥 so the file comes out looking exactly how the encoding said it should. main character permission energy fr fr.

💀 tiny warning bestie: the output filename and the permission mode both come from inside the uuencoded data — not from you — so just know that's where they're coming from 🫶

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🙈 BUGS 🙈

okay so we gotta be honest here, no gatekeeping 😭 this implementation is much slower than most uudecode programs written in C. like, noticeably. the C ones are speed demons, this one is more of a "take your time, enjoy the scenery" situation 🐢

but — and this is the important part — that's lowkey the whole point. its primary intention is to allow quick testing of the underlying Convert::UU module ✨ it's a test harness with a cute little CLI on top, not a performance flex 💅

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• puuencode(1) — the other half of the duo, go say hi 🎀
• Convert::UU(3) — the actual module underneath all this, the real MVP 🌟

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Andreas Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de> — thank you for your service, king 🫶👑

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🌈 this one came from perl v5.32.1, dated 2024-01-25 — so go forth, decode responsibly, and remember: slow and steady still slays 🦋💖✨