NAME¶

basenc - 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.

SYNOPSIS¶

basenc [-d|--decode] [-i|--ignore-garbage] [-w|--wrap] [--base64] [--base64url] [--base32] [--base32hex] [--base16] [--base2lsbf] [--base2msbf] [--z85] [--base58] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [file]

DESCRIPTION¶

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¶

-d, --decode

decode data

-i, --ignore-garbage

when decoding, ignore non-alphabetic characters

-w, --wrap <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

--base58

visually unambiguous base58 encoding

-h, --help

Print help

-V, --version

Print version

[file]

VERSION¶

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0

EXAMPLES¶

Encode a file with base64 encoding:

basenc --base64 path/to/file

Decode a file with base64 encoding:

basenc [-d|--decode] --base64 path/to/file

Encode from `stdin` with base32 encoding with 42 columns:

command | basenc --base32 [-w|--wrap] 42

Encode from `stdin` with base32 encoding:

command | basenc --base32

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project <https://tldr.sh> under the CC BY 4.0 License. Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.