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1 #!/bin/sh
3 # bz64wrap - the sending side of a bzip2 | base64 stream
4 # Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> Jan 2002
7 PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/freeware/bin
9 # A program to generate base64 encoding on stdout
10 BASE64_ENCODE="uuencode -m /dev/stdout"
11 BASE64_BEGIN=
12 BASE64_END=
14 BZIP=NO
15 BASE64=NO
17 # Test if we have the bzip program installed
18 bzip2 -c /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 && BZIP=YES
20 # Test if uuencode can handle the -m (MIME) encoding option
21 $BASE64_ENCODE < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 && BASE64=YES
23 if [ $BASE64 = NO ]; then
24 BASE64_ENCODE=mimencode
25 BASE64_BEGIN="begin-base64 644 -"
26 BASE64_END="===="
28 $BASE64_ENCODE < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 && BASE64=YES
31 if [ $BZIP = NO -o $BASE64 = NO ]; then
32 echo "$0: can't use bz64 encoding: bzip2=$BZIP, $BASE64_ENCODE=$BASE64"
33 exit 1
36 # Sadly, mimencode does not appear to have good "begin" and "end" markers
37 # like uuencode does, and it is picky about getting the right start/end of
38 # the base64 stream, so we handle this internally.
39 echo "$BASE64_BEGIN"
40 bzip2 -9 | $BASE64_ENCODE
41 echo "$BASE64_END"