Bo Borgerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christopher Kerr wrote: >> After being burned by using `head -c6 /dev/urandom | base64` as part of a >> directory name, I realised that it would be useful if base64 had an option to >> generate URL and Filename safe encodings, as specified in RFC 3548 section 4. >> >> This would make >> cat FILE | base64 --filename-safe >> equivalent to >> cat FILE | base64 | tr '+/' '-_' >> using the current coreutils tools. > > Hi, > > lib/base64.c looks fairly easy to pull apart so that current functions > base64_encode and base64_decode become wrappers around internal > functions that take an additional argument describing the alphabet. > > New functions base64_encode_filesafe and base64_decode_filesafe could > then be added without breaking the pre-existing interface or duplicating > a lot of code.
Beware: there are two versions of base64.c. The one in gnulib and another in coreutils/gl/lib. Simon and I have been thinking about how to merge these two for some time, but I haven't found time since our last exchange. Volunteers welcome ;-) _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
