On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Simon Josefsson wrote: >I was looking for something simpler, preferably the tool should even be >called 'base64' so TAB completion works. Perhaps base64 is not yet as >widely used to motivate it being part of coreutils, though. Just >because I often need such a tool doesn't mean everyone does, I guess.
There's the "base64" openssl applet, which can use argv[0]: $ ln -s /usr/bin/openssl base64 $ echo "This is a test" | ./base64 VGhpcyBpcyBhIHRlc3QK $ echo VGhpcyBpcyBhIHRlc3QK | openssl base64 -d This is a test Cheers, Phil _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
