[KLUG Members] Re: Can uuencode pass multiple files -- "just for it"

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 19:02, Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote:
> >   for i in `find . $PATH/file_name*.rpt`; do
> >     uuencode ${i} ${i} >> file_all.rpt.uue
>                ^^^^^^^^^
> Would you please explain this (apparent) redundancy?
> I'm a little slow sometimes.

That's how uuencode works, at least on my systems.  It takes both a file
argument as well as another argument for the file string in the
encoding.

-- Bryan

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