base64

Encode or decode file or standard input to/from Base64, to standard output.

More information.

• Encode the contents of a file as base64 and write the result to stdout:

base64 {filename}

• Decode the base64 contents of a file and write the result to stdout:

base64 --decode {filename}

• Encode from stdin:

{somecommand} | base64

• Decode from stdin:

{somecommand} | base64 --decode

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