tldr/pages/common/basenc.md

# basenc

> Encode or decode file or `stdin` using a specified encoding, to `stdout`.
> More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/basenc-invocation.html>.

- Encode a file with base64 encoding:

`basenc --base64 {{path/to/file}}`

- Decode a file with base64 encoding:

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

- Encode from `stdin` with base32 encoding with 42 columns:

`{{command}} | basenc --base32 -w42`

- Encode from `stdin` with base32 encoding:

`{{command}} | basenc --base32`