On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 15:35:44 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> 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". > There's always sed -e '$d', and if you're going to use sed, have it take care of the first line too with sed -e '1d;$d' Or, since the last line is always "====", use grep -v "^====" Bill ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
