BK-BASE64(1)

🌈 NAME 🌈

okay so this page is bk base64(none) from the BitKeeper User’s Manual, and the actual name vibe is: bk base64 — RFC 1341 base64 encoding and decoding. periodt 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bk base64 [−d]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

bestie, bk base64 is a filter. Its whole main-character gig is taking arbitrary data from stdin and encoding it into an ASCII format that only uses the characters A‐Z, a‐z, 0‐9, /, +, =, and newline. that’s it. that’s the alphabet 🔥

the point is that this data can easily be emailed without being mangled — no cap, it’s giving “safe to send” energy 🦋

if the −d option is passed, then the encoding is unpacked back to the original data. literally the reverse slay 😭

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• −d — Decode base64 data to the original byte stream. that’s the un-unpacking option, bestie 🫶

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• bk‐crypto
• bk‐unwrap
• bk‐wrap

go peek at those too, iykyk 💜

🌸 CATEGORY 🌸

Utility — that’s the category, no notes 👑

sign-off: BitKeeper Inc · version 1E1 · manual bk base64(none) · date: not listed in the original footer, so that’s the timestamp tea 🎀