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How do I know if Uuencode is installed?
Validate the installations # locate uuencode Will display the path of uuencode installations. In case if you do not have yum configured. You can manually download and install it from Redhat if you have access to red-hat.
What is the use of Uuencode?
The purpose of the uuencode program is to translate a binary file that contains unprintable (non-text) characters into a format that is entirely readable. This prevents mail, news, and terminal programs from misinterpreting non-text characters as special instructions.
How install Uuencode Linux?
How to get uuencode on Fedora 17 Linux
- Find out what provides for uuencode using yum: yum provides uuencode.
- Read what yum tells you: sharutils-4.11.1-3.fc17.x86_64 : The GNU shar utilities for packaging and unpackaging shell archives Repo : @updates Matched from: Filename : /usr/bin/uuencode.
What is Sharutils Linux?
GNU Sharutils is a set of utilities to handle shell archives. The GNU shar utility produces a single file out of many files and prepares them for transmission by electronic mail services, for example by converting binary files into plain ASCII text. The archive bodies are then unpacked by a copy of the shell.
What does uuencode do in Linux?
The uuencode command converts a binary file to ASCII data before using BNU (or uucp) mail to send the file to a remote system. The uudecode command converts ASCII data created by the uuencode command back into its original binary form.
How can I attach a file to uuencode?
Alternately, consider using something like mutt which will let you attach files separately from the body of the message. uuencode doesn’t read stdin if you give it an input filename as you have done here.
What is the message body in uuencode format?
In the UUENCODE attachment format, the message body consists of only two basic parts the message text and the message attachments. The following example shows a message body formatted using the UUENCODE attachment format that contains the message text and an attached Microsoft® Word file:
What is the purpose of the uuencode program?
The purpose of the uuencode program is to translate a binary file that contains unprintable (non-text) characters into a format that is entirely readable. This prevents mail, news, and terminal programs from misinterpreting non-text characters as special instructions.
Why is uuencode not found but man working fine?
I think it’s most likely that you just have the man-page for a command that’s not installed at your system. uuencode used to be part of the “standard selection” of commands, but many of these are no-longer installed by default (eg. like compact, vi and ed) – mostly because new and better commands have taken their place.