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basenc – Encode/decode data and print to standard output

Synopsis

basenc [,OPTION/]… [,FILE/]

Description

basenc encode or decode FILE, or standard input, to standard output.

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

–base64: same as ‘base64’ program (RFC4648 section 4)
–base64url: file- and url-safe base64 (RFC4648 section 5)
–base32: same as ‘base32’ program (RFC4648 section 6)
–base32hex: extended hex alphabet base32 (RFC4648 section 7)
–base16: hex encoding (RFC4648 section 8)
–base2msbf: bit string with most significant bit (msb) first
–base2lsbf: bit string with least significant bit (lsb) first
-d, –decode: decode data
-i, –ignore-garbage: when decoding, ignore non-alphabet characters
-w, –wrap=,COLS/: wrap encoded lines after COLS character (default 76). Use 0 to disable line wrapping
–z85: ascii85-like encoding (ZeroMQ spec:32/Z85); when encoding, input length must be a multiple of 4; when decoding, input length must be a multiple of 5
–help: display this help and exit
–version: output version information and exit

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.

Encodings Examples


$ printf ‘\376\117\202’ | basenc –base64

/k+C

$ printf ‘\376\117\202’ | basenc –base64url

_k-C

$ printf ‘\376\117\202’ | basenc –base32

7ZHYE===

$ printf ‘\376\117\202’ | basenc –base32hex

VP7O4===

$ printf ‘\376\117\202’ | basenc –base16

FE4F82

$ printf ‘\376\117\202’ | basenc –base2lsbf

011111111111001001000001

$ printf ‘\376\117\202’ | basenc –base2msbf

111111100100111110000010

$ printf ‘\376\117\202\000’ | basenc –z85

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Author

Written by Simon Josefsson and Assaf Gordon.

Reporting Bugs

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Copyright

Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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