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MAN Solaris - BASE64 (1)

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base64 - base64 encode/decode data and print to standard output

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base64 [OPTION] [FILE]

Base64 encode or decode FILE, or standard input, to standard output.

-w, --wrap=COLS
	Wrap encoded lines after COLS character (default 76). Use 0 to disable line wrapping.
-d, --decode
	Decode data.
-i, --ignore-garbage
	When decoding, ignore non-alphabet characters.
--help	Display this help and exit.
--version
	Output version information and exit.

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

The data are encoded as described for the base64 alphabet in RFC 3548. Decoding require compliant input by default, use --ignore-garbage to attempt to recover from non-alphabet characters (such as newlines) in the encoded stream.

Written by Simon Josefsson.

Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

Copyright © 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

The full documentation for base64 is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and base64 programs are properly installed at your site, the command

	info base64

should give you access to the complete manual.

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWgnu-coreutils
Interface Stability	Uncommitted

Source for GNU coreutils is available on http://opensolaris.org.

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