BASENC(1)

💅 basenc — the encode/decode girlie

okay so bestie, welcome to basenc, aka the manual page you're reading right now, which is literally the General Commands Manual entry for it. It's a command that encodes and decodes data, and it prints to standard output. And here's the tea: with no FILE, or when FILE is -, it reads standard input. periodt. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

basenc [OPTION]... [FILE]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So what does it do? Encode/decode data and print to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, it reads standard input. that's the whole vibe. 🦋

And when you're decoding, the input may contain newlines in addition to the bytes of the formal alphabet — so the newlines are not gonna ruin your day, ngl. Use --ignore-garbage to attempt to recover from any other non-alphabet bytes in the encoded stream. like, if the stream is messy, this is your cleanup crew. 💅

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -d, --decode — decode data. the reverse girlie of encoding. 🔄
• -i, --ignore-garbage — when decoding, ignore non-alphabetic characters. messy input? we don't see her. 🙈
• -w, --wrap <COLS> — wrap encoded lines after COLS character (default 76, 0 to disable wrapping). yes, the default is literally 76, and 0 means no wrapping at all. ✨
• --base64 — same as the base64 program. iconic behavior. 🎀
• --base64url — file- and url-safe base64. yes bestie, it's the url-safe one. 🌈
• --base32 — same as the base32 program. 🫶
• --base32hex — extended hex alphabet base32. hex but make it base32. 🔥
• --base16 — hex encoding. classic. ⭐
• --base2lsbf — bit string with least significant bit (lsb) first. lsb girlies rise. 💜
• --base2msbf — bit string with most significant bit (msb) first. msb girlies rise. 👑
• --z85 — ascii85-like encoding; when encoding, input length must be a multiple of 4; when decoding, input length must be a multiple of 5. bestie the length rules are NOT a suggestion, they're the vibe check. 💀
• --base58 — visually unambiguous base58 encoding. no confusing lookalike characters, we love a clear queen. 🍓
• -h, --help — Print help. 🧚
• -V, --version — Print version. 🦋
• [file] — the file, if you feel like giving it one. 📁

💖 VERSION 💖

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0

and that's the page!! you're literally a basenc expert now 💅✨

lowkey reminder: this manual page was dated 2026-09-17, and it came from the v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0 era — so if you're reading this from the future, hi, slay, the facts still stand. 🫶

mwah, go encode something iconic 🎀💜