base16384(1) · carta

Usage

base16384 - [ed] [t] [n] [cC] <inputfile> <outputfile>

Overview

There are 16384 Chinese characters ( from 4E00 to 8DFF ) as the alphabet , just like what base64 did. If length of the data has a remainder after mod 7, an unicode Chinese character 3Dxx will be appended to present it with xx ranging from 01 to 06

Options

-e: Read data from inputfile and encode them into outputfile. It's the default option when neither -e nor -d is specified.

-d: Read data from inputfile and decode them into outputfile.

-t: Show spend time.

-n: Do not write utf16be file header 0xFEFF to the output.

-c: Embed or validate checksum in remainder when using stdin or stdout or inputsize > _BASE16384_ENCBUFSZ.

-C: Do -c forcely.

inputfile: An absolute or relative file path. Specially, pass - to read from stdin.

outputfile: An absolute or relative file path. Specially, pass - to write to stdout.

Exit status

0: Exit on success.

1: Get file size error.

2: Fopen output file error.

3: Fopen input file error.

4: Write file error.

5: Open input file error.

6: Map input file error.

7: Write file error in mmap.

8: Invalid input/output filename.

9: Invalid commandline parameter.

10: Invalid decoding checksum.

History

Debian 13 (Trixie): the text shown here
Debian 12 (Bookworm)

-C since Debian 13 (Trixie); -c since Debian 13 (Trixie); -d since Debian 13 (Trixie); -n since Debian 13 (Trixie); -t since Debian 13 (Trixie).