TCUCODEC(1)

💖 TCUCODEC 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the tcucodec era — this is the encoder/decoder Swiss Army knife from Tokyo Cabinet, and honestly? it does everything. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

tcucodec — popular encoders and decoders 💅

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so like. the command tcucodec is a whole tool for using encoding and decoding features. you call it in the following formats, and file is your input file — if you leave it out, it reads standard input instead. no cap. 🫶

tcucodec url [-d] [-br] [-rs base] [file]

URL encoding, and the decoding of it too. 🌐

tcucodec base [-d] [file]

Base64 encoding and its decoding. ✨

tcucodec quote [-d] [file]

quoted-printable encoding and its decoding. 📧

tcucodec mime [-d] [-en name] [-q] [-on] [-hd] [-bd] [-part num]
[file]

MIME encoding and its decoding. 📨

tcucodec hex [-d] [file]

hexadecimal encoding and its decoding. 🔢

tcucodec pack [-d] [-bwt] [file]

Packbits encoding and its decoding. 📦

tcucodec tcbs [-d] [file]

TCBS encoding and its decoding. 👑

tcucodec zlib [-d] [-gz] [file]

ZLIB encoding and its decoding. 🗜️

tcucodec bzip [-d] [file]

BZIP2 encoding and its decoding. 🌀

tcucodec xml [-d] [-br] [file]

Processes XML. by default it escapes meta characters. 🪄

tcucodec cstr [-d] [-js] [file]

C-string escaping, and the unescaping of it. 🧵

tcucodec ucs [-d] [-un] [-kw str] [file]

Converts a UTF-8 string into a UCS-2 array. 🌸

tcucodec hash [-crc] [-ch num] [file]

Calculates the hash value. by default it uses the MD5 function. 🫧

tcucodec cipher [-key str] [file]

Stream cipher, and the deciphering of it. 🔐

tcucodec date [-ds str] [-jl num] [-wf] [-rf]

Processes a date string. by default it prints the current UNIX time. ⏰

tcucodec tmpl [-var name value] [file]

Template serialization, slay. 🎀

tcucodec conf [-v|-i|-l|-p]

Prints some configurations. ⚙️

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

okay the options all do the following, and yes there are a LOT of them, we're listing every single one because we don't gatekeep:

• -d — perform decoding (unescaping), not encoding (escaping). 🪞
• -br — break up URL or XML into elements. 🧩
• -rs base — specify the base URL and resolve the relative URL. 🔗
• -en name — specify the input encoding, which is UTF-8 by default. 🔤
• -q — use quoted-printable encoding, which is Base64 by default. 📮
• -on — output the charset name when decoding. 🏷️
• -bd — perform MIME parsing and output the body. 🫀
• -hd — perform MIME parsing and output the headers. 🗂️
• -part num — perform MIME parsing and output the specified part. ✂️
• -bwt — convert by BWT as preprocessing. 🔄
• -gz — use GZIP format. 🗜️
• -crc — use CRC32 function. ✅
• -js — use JSON compatible format. 🧾
• -un — perform UCS normalization. 🧼
• -kw str — generate KWIC string. 🔍
• -ch num — use consistent hashing function. 🎯
• -key str — specify the cipher key. 🗝️
• -ds str — specify the time. 🕰️
• -jl num — specify the jet lag. ✈️
• -wf — format the output in W3CDTF. 📅
• -rf — format the output in RFC 1123 format. 📆
• -var name value — specify a template variable. 🏷️
• -v — show the version number of Tokyo Cabinet. 👑
• -i — show options to include the headers of Tokyo Cabinet. 📥
• -l — show options to link the library of Tokyo Cabinet. 🔗
• -p — show the directory path of the commands of Tokyo Cabinet. 📁

heads up bestie: this command returns 0 on success, and another value on failure. check that exit status, fr fr. 😭

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

tcutest(1), tcumttest(1), tcutil(3), tokyocabinet(3) — go read your siblings, they're iconic too. 🫶

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and that's the whole page, babes 💖 this was the Tokyo Cabinet tcucodec man page, dated 2012-08-18, rendered as a man page by — you guessed it — Man Page. mwah, go encode something. 💅✨🎀