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.TH BASENC 1 "2026-09-01"
.SH NAME
basenc \- Encode/decode data and print to standard output
With no FILE, or when FILE is \-, read standard input.

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.
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBbasenc\fR [OPTION]... [FILE]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Encode/decode data and print to standard output
With no FILE, or when FILE is \-, read standard input.
.PP
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.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-decode\fR
decode data
.TP
\fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-ignore\-garbage\fR
when decoding, ignore non\-alphabetic characters
.TP
\fB\-w\fR, \fB\-\-wrap\fR \fI<COLS>\fR
wrap encoded lines after COLS character (default 76, 0 to disable wrapping)
.TP
\fB\-\-base64\fR
same as \*(Aqbase64\*(Aq program
.TP
\fB\-\-base64url\fR
file\- and url\-safe base64
.TP
\fB\-\-base32\fR
same as \*(Aqbase32\*(Aq program
.TP
\fB\-\-base32hex\fR
extended hex alphabet base32
.TP
\fB\-\-base16\fR
hex encoding
.TP
\fB\-\-base2lsbf\fR
bit string with least significant bit (lsb) first
.TP
\fB\-\-base2msbf\fR
bit string with most significant bit (msb) first
.TP
\fB\-\-z85\fR
ascii85\-like encoding;
when encoding, input length must be a multiple of 4;
when decoding, input length must be a multiple of 5
.TP
\fB\-\-base58\fR
visually unambiguous base58 encoding
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
Print help
.TP
\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
Print version
.TP
[\fIfile\fR]

.SH VERSION
v(uutils coreutils) 0.11.0