BASE16384(1)

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version 2.3.2 · 4 versions
, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

🎀 BASE16384 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the base16384 manual page — section 1 of the User Commands manual, she's a whole icon 💅

✨ NAME ✨

base16384 — encode binary files to printable utf16be 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the vibe: there are 16384 Chinese characters (from 4E00 to 8DFF) serving as the alphabet, just like what base64 does but make it ✨extra✨. no cap, it's giving the same energy, different alphabet 💫

and if the 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. periodt. 🫶

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • -e — read data from inputfile and encode them into outputfile. she's the default option when neither -e nor -d is specified, so if you say nothing she just starts encoding like the main character she is 💅
  • -d — read data from inputfile and decode them into outputfile. the reverse slay 🔄
  • -t — show spend time. she's clocking it ⏱️
  • -n — do not write the utf16be file header 0xFEFF to the output. no header, no problem 🙈
  • -c — embed or validate checksum in remainder when using stdin or stdout or inputsize > _BASE16384_ENCBUFSZ. trust but verify energy 🧚
  • -C — do -c forcely. like, forcefully. she is not asking, she is telling 💀
  • 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. ate and left no crumbs 👑
  • 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 💀

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go follow, iykyk 💜

🦋 BUGS 🦋

there are currently no known bugs in this application. if you have found them, please contact the author on github. (not me finding a bug and being the main character of the issue tracker 😭)

🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

this manual page contributed by Fumiama Minamoto. iconic of her fr fr ✨

Copyright © 2022-2025, Fumiama Minamoto. This file is part of base16384.

Base16384 is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Base16384 is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

bestie pls actually read the license, it's important, no skimming 💖

and that's the whole page!! this one's from the GNU fam, dated 4 Sep 2025, and it lives at BASE16384(1) in the manual. mwah, ily, go encode something pretty 🎀💖✨🦋🌸

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