UUFILTER(1x)

💖 UUFILTER — the manual, bestie edition 💖

ok so this is the uufilter(1x) page and honestly? it's a lil icon. it decodes uuencoded files and sends them to stdout. that's it. that's the girl. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

uufilter — decode uuencoded files to stdout 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

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

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Uufilter is a "smart" uuencoded file decoder that can optionally dump the file to stdout. periodt. 💅

If you don't hand it a filename, it reads the input from stdin. no filename, no problem, it just vibes with the pipe. 🫶

Here's the part that's genuinely iconic: Uufilter automatically ignores lines that do not appear to be part of the uuencoded file. it just knows. it skips the noise on its own. 😌

And that is so useful when you're uudecoding files that have been concatenated from several email or news postings without stripping off the headers or otherwise editing extraneous content. like, you did NOT clean up that file, and it's fine, it's fine, she'll handle it. 🔥

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -f filename — dump output to filename instead of the name specified in the uuencoded file. you're overriding the vibes. respectfully. 💅
• -l — Lenient mode. this one's your bestie if the file got passed through a mailer that adds trailing spaces. she'll forgive the extra space. she's chill like that. 🌸
• -s — dump output to stdout rather than to the filename indicated in the uuencoded file. straight to your terminal, no middleman. ✨
• -v — Verbose mode; talks about what's going on. she's narrating her own life. main character energy fr fr. 👑

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

Jim Frost (jimf@centerline.com) 💖

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ok bestie that's literally the whole page, no gatekeeping, no cap. go decode something. 🎀

this has been the uufilter(1x) page — source/version UUFILTER(1x), dated 21 October 1993, which is giving vintage but make it slay. mwah. 💋✨