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
@.FaCReporting Bugs
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Copyright
Copyright © 2019 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.
See Also
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/basenc>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) basenc invocation'