tldr/pages/osx/base64.md

base64

Encode and decode using Base64 representation. More information: https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/base64.1.html.

• Encode a file:

base64 --input={{plain_file}}

• Decode a file:

base64 --decode --input={{base64_file}}

• Encode from stdin:

echo -n "{{plain_text}}" | base64

• Decode from stdin:

echo -n {{base64_text}} | base64 --decode