basenc

basenc [OPTION]... [FILE]

Encode/decode data and print to standard output With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

When decoding, the input may contain newlines in addition to the bytes of the formal alphabet. Use --ignore-garbage to attempt to recover from any other non-alphabet bytes in the encoded stream.

Options

--decode, -d

decode data

--ignore-garbage, -i

when decoding, ignore non-alphabetic characters

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

wrap encoded lines after COLS character (default 76, 0 to disable wrapping)

--base64

same as 'base64' program

--base64url

file- and url-safe base64

--base32

same as 'base32' program

--base32hex

extended hex alphabet base32

--base16

hex encoding

--base2lsbf

bit string with least significant bit (lsb) first

--base2msbf

bit string with most significant bit (msb) first

--z85

ascii85-like encoding;
when encoding, input length must be a multiple of 4;
when decoding, input length must be a multiple of 5

Examples

Encode a file with base64 encoding:

basenc --base64 {{path/to/file}}

Decode a file with base64 encoding:

basenc --decode --base64 {{path/to/file}}

Encode from stdin with base32 encoding with 42 columns:

{{command}} | basenc --base32 -w42

Encode from stdin with base32 encoding:

{{command}} | basenc --base32

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.