PUUENCODE(1)

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💅 PUUENCODE(1) 💅

ok so this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual, and bestie, it's a whole little situation. welcome to puuencode 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

puuencode — the perl replacement for uuencode, fr fr 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

puuencode inputfile as_outputfile

that's it. that's the whole summoning ritual. two things, in that order, no cap ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea, bestie: puuencode reads the inputfile and writes a printable version of it to STDOUT in uuencoded style. like, it takes your file and turns it into something you can actually look at without your terminal having a whole meltdown 😭

and honestly? nothing fancy. it's literally just a simple uuencode replacement. lowkey humble. we respect it 💅

💀 BUGS 💀

ok so this is the part where we keep it real 🙈

  • this implementation is much slower than most uuencode programs written in C. like, noticeably. it's giving "walking so the C version could run" energy 😭
  • its primary intention is to allow quick testing of the underlying Convert::UU module. so like, it's a test subject, not a main character. it's the supporting cast, and that's iconic of it honestly 👑

so yeah — don't come for it about speed, it never claimed to be that girl. 💀

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

  • puudecode(1) — the other half of the duo, the decoder bestie 🫶
  • Convert::UU(3) — the module underneath all of this, the actual icon ✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Andreas Koenig <andreas.koenig@mind.de> — ty for your service, king 🫡💖

ok that's the whole page, you ate that, no crumbs left 🌈✨

anyway this little gem is from perl v5.32.1, dated 2024-01-25 — so like, go forth and uuencode responsibly, bestie. mwah 💋🎀

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