On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 15:35:44 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 09:14:33 -0500, Bill Godfrey wrote: >>> >>Under OMVS on z/OS you can convert data to base64 with the "uuencode -m" >>command. ... >> >This appears to be POSIX, so should be available on most systems. (But I >needed to >install it for Ubuntu Linux.) > >> ... The "-m" switch makes it use base64 instead of its normal form of >> encoding. You just have to strip off or ignore the first and last line of >> the result if you only want the base64 part. >> >"tail +2" (not +1!? "Fencepost error".) strips off the first line. Is there >a utility >to strip the last line? There seems to be no corresponding option for "head". >
This option for "head" works on Linux, to strip the last line: head -n-1 and also: head -n -1 but it doesn't work on Unix System Services, or IBM's AIX either. Bill ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
