On: Tell HN: People forget that you can stick any data at the end of a bash script

[themerone]

Base 64 is slightly more space efficient. Other than that it's just more popular and better supported.

[vram22 → themerone]

Got it, thanks.

Yes, uuencode / uudecode are probably older too.

They are from the uucp dialup comms era of networking.