LinuxCommandLibrary

basenc

Encode or decode file or standard input using a specified encoding, to standard output.

TLDR

Encode a file with base64 encoding

$ basenc --base64 [path/to/file]
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Decode a file with base64 encoding
$ basenc --decode --base64 [path/to/file]
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Encode from stdin with base32 encoding with 42 columns
$ [command] | basenc --base32 -w42
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Encode from stdin with base32 encoding
$ [command] | basenc --base32
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