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NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | ENCODING EXAMPLES | AUTHOR | REPORTING BUGS | COPYRIGHT | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON |
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BASENC(1) User Commands BASENC(1)
basenc - Encode/decode data and print to standard output
basenc [OPTION]... [FILE]
basenc encode or decode FILE, or standard input, to standard
output.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short
options too.
--base64
same as 'base64' program (RFC4648 section 4)
--base64url
file- and url-safe base64 (RFC4648 section 5)
--base32
same as 'base32' program (RFC4648 section 6)
--base32hex
extended hex alphabet base32 (RFC4648 section 7)
--base16
hex encoding (RFC4648 section 8)
--base2msbf
bit string with most significant bit (msb) first
--base2lsbf
bit string with least significant bit (lsb) first
-d, --decode
decode data
-i, --ignore-garbage
when decoding, ignore non-alphabet characters
-w, --wrap=COLS
wrap encoded lines after COLS character (default 76). Use
0 to disable line wrapping
--z85 ascii85-like encoding (ZeroMQ spec:32/Z85); when encoding,
input length must be a multiple of 4; when decoding, input
length must be a multiple of 5
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
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.
$ printf '\376\117\202' | basenc --base64
/k+C
$ printf '\376\117\202' | basenc --base64url
_k-C
$ printf '\376\117\202' | basenc --base32
7ZHYE===
$ printf '\376\117\202' | basenc --base32hex
VP7O4===
$ printf '\376\117\202' | basenc --base16
FE4F82
$ printf '\376\117\202' | basenc --base2lsbf
011111111111001001000001
$ printf '\376\117\202' | basenc --base2msbf
111111100100111110000010
$ printf '\376\117\202\000' | basenc --z85
@.FaC
Written by Simon Josefsson and Assaf Gordon.
GNU coreutils online help:
<https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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Copyright © 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+:
GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/basenc>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) basenc invocation'
This page is part of the coreutils (basic file, shell and text
manipulation utilities) project. Information about the project
can be found at ⟨http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/⟩. If you
have a bug report for this manual page, see
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GNU coreutils 9.7 April 2025 BASENC(1)
Pages that refer to this page: base32(1), base64(1)
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