basenc(1) — Linux manual page

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BASENC(1)                     User Commands                    BASENC(1)

NAME         top

       basenc - Encode/decode data and print to standard output

SYNOPSIS         top

       basenc [OPTION]... [FILE]

DESCRIPTION         top

       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.

ENCODING EXAMPLES         top

              $ 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
              @.FaC

AUTHOR         top

       Written by Simon Josefsson and Assaf Gordon.

REPORTING BUGS         top

       GNU coreutils online help:
       <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       Report any translation bugs to
       <https://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT         top

       Copyright © 2023 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         top

       Full documentation
       <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/basenc>
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) basenc invocation'

COLOPHON         top

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GNU coreutils 9.4              August 2023                     BASENC(1)

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