basenc(1)

✨ basenc(1) — the girlies' guide to encoding and decoding ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to basenc, from the General Commands Manual 💖. This is the tool you reach for when you need to encode or decode data and yeet it straight to standard output. No FILE? Or FILE is -? Then she's reading from standard input, no questions asked 🫶.

When you're decoding, heads up: the input may contain newlines in addition to the bytes of the formal alphabet 🌸. And if there's other non-alphabet garbage floating around in your encoded stream? Use --ignore-garbage to attempt to recover from any other non-alphabet bytes in the encoded stream. Attempt!! It's giving "we'll try our best" energy 💅.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

basenc [-d|--decode] [-i|--ignore-garbage] [-w|--wrap] [--base64]
[--base64url] [--base32] [--base32hex] [--base16] [--base2lsbf]
[--base2msbf] [--z85] [--base58] [-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. That's the whole vibe.

When decoding, the input may contain newlines in addition to the bytes of the formal alphabet ✨. Use --ignore-garbage to attempt to recover from any other non-alphabet bytes in the encoded stream. Not guaranteed, bestie — attempt is the key word 😭.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -d, --decode — decode data 🔄
• -i, --ignore-garbage — when decoding, ignore non-alphabetic characters 🙈
• -w, --wrap <COLS> — wrap encoded lines after COLS character (default 76, 0 to disable wrapping) 🎀
• --base64 — same as 'base64' program 👑
• --base64url — file- and url-safe base64 🔥
• --base32 — same as 'base32' program ⭐
• --base32hex — extended hex alphabet base32 🧚
• --base16 — hex encoding 🌸
• --base2lsbf — bit string with least significant bit (lsb) first 🦋
• --base2msbf — bit string with most significant bit (msb) first 🌈
• --z85 — ascii85-like encoding; when encoding, input length must be a multiple of 4; when decoding, input length must be a multiple of 5 💀

no fr, that --z85 one is strict. encode → multiple of 4. decode → multiple of 5. she does not play 💅

• --base58 — visually unambiguous base58 encoding 👀
• -h, --help — Print help 🫶
• -V, --version — Print version 💜
• [file] — the file, bestie 📁

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💖 VERSION 💖

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0

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and that's the whole page, periodt ✨ stay encoded, stay iconic, and remember: this manual is basenc (uutils coreutils) 0.7.0 — mwah 💋🎀