On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Maybe I'm using it wrong.  When I go:
>
>  uuencode < file
>
> It complains I didn't give it a filename, but "uuencode filename" hangs
> without producing any output.

It waits for the input from stdin.

1.19.x has improved help text which hopefully makes
it clearer that one-parameter form does *not* specify input file,
but specifies filename to be printed in the encoded form:

$ busybox uuencode --help
busybox uuencode --help
BusyBox v1.19.2 (2011-09-12 21:02:22 CEST) multi-call binary.

Usage: uuencode [-m] [INFILE] STORED_FILENAME

$ echo "test" | busybox uuencode testfile


-- 
vda

Attachment: testfile
Description: Binary data

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