base64

Options

--decode, -d, -D

base-common-help-decode

--ignore-garbage, -i

base-common-help-ignore-garbage

--wrap=<COLS>, -w <COLS>

base-common-help-wrap

Examples

Encode a file:

base64 {{path/to/file}}

Wrap encoded output at a specific width (0 disables wrapping):

base64 {{[-w|--wrap]}} {{0|76|...}} {{path/to/file}}

Decode a file:

base64 {{[-d|--decode]}} {{path/to/file}}

Encode from stdin:

{{command}} | base64

Decode from stdin:

{{command}} | base64 {{[-d|--decode]}}

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.