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Re: What is the opposite of 'printf'?
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Eric Blake |
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Re: What is the opposite of 'printf'? |
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Mon, 11 Dec 2006 20:14:24 -0700 |
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According to Matthew Woehlke on 12/11/2006 5:46 PM:
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> The objective is to be able to reproduce a binary file from an 'editor
> friendly' shell script. I know base64 could do this, except that base64
> is not portable (even to pre-6.x GNU coreutils), whereas printf is IIRC
> required by POSIX.
Does your final filter have to be printf, or can it be another program?
For example, have you considered uuencode/uudecode, which _are_ specified
by POSIX?
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