Re: quoted-printable [--decode]: it's time

[Jim Meyering]

address@hidden wrote:
> OK, now that there is a base64(1) command, I could have sworn I also saw
> a quoted-printable command too [or else I wouldn't have deleted mine so
> fast :-(].
> OK, I restored mine
> $ cat bin/qp-decode
> #!/bin/sh -e
> #jidanni  *** replacement for mime-codecs package ***
> case $0 in
>     *qp-encode)    perl -MMIME::QuotedPrint -wne 'print encode_qp($_)';;
>     *qp-decode)    perl -MMIME::QuotedPrint -wne 'print decode_qp($_)';;
>     *base64-encode)perl -MMIME::Base64      -wne 'print encode_base64($_)';;
>     *base64-decode)perl -MMIME::Base64      -wne 'print decode_base64($_)';;
>     *)exit 88;;
> esac
>
> And as
> $ apt-file search quoted-printable|wc -l
> 8
> aren't coreutils, ("qp" finds even more), I hereby sure wish coreutils
> had one.

GNU recode does that:

    $ printf '\0\1'|recode ../QP
    =00=01=
    $ printf '\0\1'|recode ../QP | recode /QP| od -tx1
    0000000 00 01
    0000002