basenc Command Examples

Encode or decode file or stdin using a specified encoding, to stdout. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/basenc-invocation.html.

• Encode a file with base64 encoding:

basenc --base64 {{path/to/file}}

• Decode a file with base64 encoding:

basenc {{[-d|--decode]}} --base64 {{path/to/file}}

• Encode from stdin with base32 encoding with 42 columns:

{{command}} | basenc --base32 {{[-w|--wrap]}} 42

• Encode from stdin with base32 encoding:

{{command}} | basenc --base32