Re: uuencode manpage

[Bruce Korb]

Hello,

This is not exactly a response to the issue because I cannot figure out 
what the issue actually is. This email reads like there should be an 
antecedent email, but I cannot find it.

Anyway, output goes to stdout, period, full stop. What you provide as 
the final argument to the command is the name encoded into the output 
file that gets "printed" to stdout. Attached is the POSIX description 
for the final argument to uuencode.

Does that answer your question?

Cheers - Bruce

On 9/10/21 9:52 AM, Raphaël Bazaud via Bug reports for the GNU utilities 
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> That is not exactly a bug report, only a minor remark, the manpage for uuencode 
> states that /dev/stdout should be used as output file in order to display the 
> output.
>
> However using « - » as output file is shorter and does just the same (for 
> GNU/Linux anyway, maybe not for AIX or other members of the UNIX family).
>
> Best regards,
>
> -- R. Bazaud

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