OK, now that there is a base64(1) command, I could have sworn I also saw a quoted-printable command too [or else I wouldn't have deleted mine so fast :-(]. OK, I restored mine $ cat bin/qp-decode #!/bin/sh -e #jidanni *** replacement for mime-codecs package *** case $0 in *qp-encode) perl -MMIME::QuotedPrint -wne 'print encode_qp($_)';; *qp-decode) perl -MMIME::QuotedPrint -wne 'print decode_qp($_)';; *base64-encode)perl -MMIME::Base64 -wne 'print encode_base64($_)';; *base64-decode)perl -MMIME::Base64 -wne 'print decode_base64($_)';; *)exit 88;; esac
And as $ apt-file search quoted-printable|wc -l 8 aren't coreutils, ("qp" finds even more), I hereby sure wish coreutils had one.