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# base64 - Unix, Linux Command

# NAME

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

# SYNOPSIS

base64 [OPTION] [FILE]

# DESCRIPTION

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

Tag | Description
--- | ---
-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.

# AUTHOR

Written by Simon Josefsson.

# REPORTING BUGS

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

# COPYRIGHT

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.

# SEE ALSO

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

Tag | Description
--- | ---
| info base64

should give you access to the complete manual.

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