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 [OPTION]... [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) 0.12.0