On Thu, 2023-01-12 at 13:44 +0700, Robert Elz via austin-group-l at The Open Group wrote: > If there was anything to do here with uuencode/uudecode it would be > to > (again) consider removing them from the standard - but not because of > security issues, just because they are now essentially obsolete.
It's the only portable way to encode/decode stuff to/from base64, which may e.g. used if binary data (with 0x0) needs to be hold in a shell variable. IMO it should only be removed if replaced by the base64 utility. Cheers, Chris.
