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.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!  It was generated by help2man 1.48.5.
.TH BASENC "1" "January 2024" "GNU coreutils 9.4" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
basenc \- Encode/decode data and print to standard output
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B basenc
[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... [\fI\,FILE\/\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.\" Add any additional description here
.PP
basenc encode or decode FILE, or standard input, to standard output.
.PP
With no FILE, or when FILE is \-, read standard input.
.PP
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
.TP
\fB\-\-base64\fR
same as 'base64' program (RFC4648 section 4)
.TP
\fB\-\-base64url\fR
file\- and url\-safe base64 (RFC4648 section 5)
.TP
\fB\-\-base32\fR
same as 'base32' program (RFC4648 section 6)
.TP
\fB\-\-base32hex\fR
extended hex alphabet base32 (RFC4648 section 7)
.TP
\fB\-\-base16\fR
hex encoding (RFC4648 section 8)
.TP
\fB\-\-base2msbf\fR
bit string with most significant bit (msb) first
.TP
\fB\-\-base2lsbf\fR
bit string with least significant bit (lsb) first
.TP
\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-decode\fR
decode data
.TP
\fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-ignore\-garbage\fR
when decoding, ignore non\-alphabet characters
.TP
\fB\-w\fR, \fB\-\-wrap\fR=\fI\,COLS\/\fR
wrap encoded lines after COLS character (default 76).
Use 0 to disable line wrapping
.TP
\fB\-\-z85\fR
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
.TP
\fB\-\-help\fR
display this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-\-version\fR
output version information and exit
.PP
When decoding, the input may contain newlines in addition to the bytes of
the formal alphabet.  Use \fB\-\-ignore\-garbage\fR to attempt to recover
from any other non\-alphabet bytes in the encoded stream.
.SH "ENCODING EXAMPLES"
.PP
.nf
.RS
$ 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
.RE
.fi
.SH AUTHOR
Written by Simon Josefsson and Assaf Gordon.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
.br
Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
.br
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/basenc>
.br
or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) basenc invocation\(aq