UUFILTER(1)

📦 version 4.1, in ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 UUFILTER 💖

okay bestie, so this is uufilter from the General Commands Manual — a whole queen whose entire job is decoding uuencoded files straight to stdout. she's giving main character energy and honestly? she ate. ✨

✨ NAME ✨

uufilter — decode uuencoded files to stdout 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

uufilter [-f outfilename] [-l] [-s] [-v] [infilename]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So uufilter is a "smart" uuencoded file decoder, and she can optionally dump the file to stdout. iconic behavior, no cap. 💖

If you don't hand her a filename, she reads input from stdin. simple as that.

Here's the part that's lowkey the best thing ever: uufilter automatically ignores lines that do not appear to be part of the uuencoded file. this is so useful when you're uudecoding files that got concatenated from several email or news postings and nobody bothered to strip off the headers or edit out the extraneous content. she just. knows. 🧚✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -f filename — dump the output to filename instead of the name specified in the uuencoded file. you're the one choosing, periodt. 👑
  • -l — Lenient mode. this one's your girl if the file got passed through a mailer that adds trailing spaces. she'll be chill about it. 💜
  • -s — dump output to stdout rather than to the filename indicated in the uuencoded file. straight to your terminal, no detours. 🌈
  • -v — Verbose mode; she talks about what's going on. she will literally narrate her own life. 😭💀

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Jim Frost (jimf@centerline.com) 🫶

that's the whole vibe, bestie — go decode something gorgeous. 🦋

this page is from October 21, 1993, and it's part of the General Commands Manual — yeah, she's vintage, she's a classic, and she still slays. 💖🎀✨

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