JOSE-B64-ENC(1)

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🎀 JOSE-B64-ENC 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to jose-b64-enc, part of the jose manual crew (that's JOSE-B64-ENC(1) if you're being formal 💅). She's a tiny little queen with one job and she does it flawlessly: taking your raw binary chaos and turning it into URL-safe Base64. no cap. ✨

💖 NAME 💖

jose-b64-enc — literally just encodes binary data to URL-safe Base64. that's it. that's the whole gig. and she ate. 🍓

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

jose b64 enc -I BIN [-o B64]

🌸 OVERVIEW 🌸

ok so picture this: you've got yourself some binary data. it's giving unreadable. it's giving raw bytes. and you need it in URL-safe Base64 format so it can travel the internet without breaking anything.

enter jose b64 enc, your main character. 🫶 she encodes binary data to URL-safe Base64 format, periodt. that's the vibe check and she passed.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

here's where the real tea is, bestie — every flag, every form, no skipping:

  • -I FILE, --binary=FILE — reads binary data from FILE. this is your input, your source material, the raw material she's gonna slay into shape. 🦋
  • -I -, --binary=- — same thing but instead of a file, she reads binary data from standard input. the classic - move, yk? iconic behavior. ⭐
  • -o FILE, --base64=FILE — writes the Base64 (URL-safe!) output to FILE. that's where the glow-up lives. 🔥
  • -o -, --base64=- — writes the Base64 (URL-safe!) output to standard output. default girlie behavior when you want to see the results yourself in the terminal. 👑
ngl bestie, note that both the -I and -o descriptions specify URL-safe Base64 — that hyphen-and-underscore-safe flavor, not the regular kind. don't come for me, that's what the page says 💜

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

ok here's the moment you've been waiting for, a real live example 💀

Encode a simple message:

$ echo "Hello, World" | jose b64 enc -I-
SGVsbG8sIFdvcmxkCg

like, look at that. Hello, World went in, SGVsbG8sIFdvcmxkCg came out, and the pipeline used -I- to read from stdin exactly like we said. truly a rags-to-riches story. 😭✨

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

this masterpiece was brought to you by Nathaniel McCallum <npmccallum@redhat.com>. give her a round of applause fr fr 🎀

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

  • jose-b64-dec(1) — the reverse queen. she takes it back to binary. yin to her yang, if ykyk. 🦋

so yeah, that's the whole page bestie, every flag, every example, nothing dropped 💖 and just so you have the receipts: this was from the JOSE-B64-ENC(1) manual, dated 06/09/2026. go forth and encode slayfully 🔥👑💅

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