BASENC(1)			 User Commands			     BASENC(1)

NAME
       basenc - Encode/decode data and print to standard output

SYNOPSIS
       basenc [OPTION]... [FILE]

DESCRIPTION
       basenc encode or decode FILE, or standard input, to standard output.

       With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options
       too.

       --base64
	      same as 'base64' program (RFC4648 section 4)

       --base64url
	      file- and url-safe base64 (RFC4648 section 5)

       --base58
	      visually unambiguous base58 encoding

       --base32
	      same as 'base32' program (RFC4648 section 6)

       --base32hex
	      extended hex alphabet base32 (RFC4648 section 7)

       --base16
	      hex encoding (RFC4648 section 8)

       --base2msbf
	      bit string with most significant bit (msb) first

       --base2lsbf
	      bit string with least significant bit (lsb) first

       -d, --decode
	      decode data

       -i, --ignore-garbage
	      when decoding, ignore non-alphabet characters

       -w, --wrap=COLS
	      wrap encoded lines after COLS character (default 76).  Use 0 to
	      disable line wrapping

       --z85  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

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

       When decoding, the input may contain newlines in addition to the bytes
       of the formal alphabet.	Use --ignore-garbage to attempt to recover
       from any other non-alphabet bytes in the encoded stream.

ENCODING EXAMPLES
	      $ 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

AUTHOR
       Written by Simon Josefsson and Assaf Gordon.

REPORTING BUGS
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COPYRIGHT
       Copyright © 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.	License GPLv3+: GNU
       GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
       There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
       Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/basenc>
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) basenc invocation'

GNU coreutils 9.8		September 2025			     BASENC(1)