UUDECODE(1)

📦 version 1.053, in alpine 3.24

🎀 UUDECODE(1) — NAME 🎀

uudecode — decode a binary file. That's the whole assignment, bestie. 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Okay so there are literally three ways to run this, and the comments are doing the explaining:

# decode to the name in the header
% uudecode [-i] file.uu

# decode to the name on the command line
% uudecode -o output.txt file.uu

# decode to standard output despite the header
% uudecode -o - file.uu

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This program decodes a uuencoded file and saves the results to the file denoted in the header line. No cap, that header line is the main character deciding where the output goes. 💅

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

The following options are available:

  • -i — Do not overwrite files. Periodt. 🙈
  • -o FILE — Write output to the specified FILE, ignoring the filename in the uuencode header line. If FILE is -, standard output will be used. ✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Originally by Nick Ing-Simmons, but since then it's been irrecognizably hacked on by Tom Christiansen. brian d foy further packaged, improved, and tested it. 🫶

Served fresh from User Contributed Perl Documentation by perl v5.42.2, dated 2026-02-15. UUDECODE(1), out. 💅✨

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