Why can't I do this: uuencode -m /mnt/kd/xyz/myfile.csv > stuff ?
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Wed Feb 22 21:05:05 UTC 2006
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 3:10 pm, Jason Schoon wrote:
> Ye old man page:
> http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/uuencode.1.htmlspecifies that in
> the case specified above, you would also have to specify a
> third argument of where you would like the data to go. Otherwise, it goes
> to stdout as you are seeing.
>
> If only 1 argument is given, it is the output file, not input. A bit
> unusual for my taste, but that's how it should be.
There is a spec, I'm not arguing.
> I didn't look at the Busybox source to see if this is how it actually
> behaves though, but it should at least explain why his initial example
> didn't work as expected.
The current busybox source is wrong here. I'll fix it after I run a few
errands...
Rob
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