Hi, the docs for basenc --base16 says "hex encoding (RFC4648 section 8)". The referenced section in that RFC says
Essentially, Base 16 encoding is the standard case-insensitive hex encoding and may be referred to as "base16" or "hex". I think it would be both more useful, and consistent with docs, if basenc -d --base16 accepted either upper- or lowercase hex digits. Current behavior, with basenc (GNU coreutils) 9.1: $ echo 666F6F0A |basenc --base16 -d foo $ echo 666F6f0A |basenc --base16 -d fobasenc: invalid input I think both inputs should give the same output, "foo\n", at least by default. Possibly configurable with options like --strict, --upper, --lower, etc (--upper/--lower would be useful also for the --base16 encoding, i.e., no -d). Regards, /Niels -- Niels Möller. PGP key CB4962D070D77D7FCB8BA36271D8F1FF368C6677. Internet email is subject to wholesale government surveillance.
