Hi, I noticed some inconsistency in how base32 and base64 handle invalid input when decoding.
base32 simply shows an error on stderr whereas base64 shows an error on stderr plus some output on stdout. $ echo 'invalid' | base32 -d 2> /dev/null $ echo 'invalid' | base32 -d > /dev/null base32: invalid input $ echo 'invalid' | base64 -d 2> /dev/null �{ږ'$ $ echo 'invalid' | base64 -d > /dev/null base64: invalid input I'm using coreutils 9.7. Regards, Daniel