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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: uudecode to stdout?
Message-ID: <10438@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 17 Nov 90 02:16:52 GMT
References: <1990Nov16.180453.1663@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1990Nov16.180453.1663@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov writes:
: I would like to be able to send the output of uudecode to
: standard output so I can pipe it to other things, but it
: seems to require an actual file.  I suppose I could modify
: the "begin" line with sed to send to a file in /tmp, then
: cat that file and remove it, but... yech.  Anyone got any
: ideas that don't require writing C code?

How 'bout this?

    perl -ne 'next if 1../begin/; last if /end/; print unpack("u",$_)' in >out

Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov