base64(1)

💖 base64(1) — General Commands Manual 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about base64, a certified bop from the uutils coreutils collection. she encodes/decodes data and prints it straight to standard output, and she's been serving since forever. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

base64 — encode/decode data and print to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

The data are encoded as described for the base64 alphabet in RFC 3548. When decoding, the input may contain newlines in addition to the bytes of the formal base64 alphabet. Use --ignore-garbage to attempt to recover from any other non-alphabet bytes in the encoded stream. 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

base64 [-d|--decode] [-i|--ignore-garbage] [-w|--wrap] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [file]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

encode/decode data and print to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. iconic behavior, no notes 💖

The data are encoded as described for the base64 alphabet in RFC 3548. When decoding, the input may contain newlines in addition to the bytes of the formal base64 alphabet — she's chill like that, newlines are fine. But use --ignore-garbage to attempt to recover from any other non-alphabet bytes in the encoded stream, iykyk. 🫶

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -d, --decode — decode data. the un-slay button, she reverses the whole vibe 💫
• -i, --ignore-garbage — when decoding, ignore non-alphabetic characters. she's not gonna read that, bestie, she's moving on 🙈
• -w, --wrap <COLS> — wrap encoded lines after COLS character (default 76, 0 to disable wrapping). yes, character, singular, that's what the page says and I'm not fighting it 💀 set it to 0 and she simply refuses to wrap, periodt
• -h, --help — Print help. always here for you 🥺
• -V, --version — Print version. receipts, in case anyone doubts her 👑
• [file]

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🌈 VERSION 🌈

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0 — the glow-up era, we love to see it 💜

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okay so that's the whole page, bestie. this lil diva is base64 (uutils coreutils) 0.7.0, the manual page itself being base64(1), and she said goodnight from the uutils coreutils lineup. go encode something iconic and text me when you're done. 🌸🎀🦋✨💖