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tldr/pages/common/base64.md
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pages/*: add backticks around I/O streams (#10436)
* as suggested in #10428
* standard input  => `stdin`
* standard output => `stdout`
* standard error  => `stderr`

Co-authored-by: K.B.Dharun Krishna <kbdharunkrishna@gmail.com>
2023-08-09 10:59:02 +05:30

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base64

Encode or decode file or stdin to/from Base64, to stdout. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/base64.

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

base64 {{path/to/file}}

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

base64 --decode {{path/to/file}}

  • Encode from stdin:

{{somecommand}} | base64

  • Decode from stdin:

{{somecommand}} | base64 --decode