Reimplementation of ferno's base1 in C for UNIXoid shells.
- Why not?
- guaranteed to be compatible with any character set, no matter how small (theoretically)
To generate the binary, run make. Then, copy the resulting base1 binary to
a directory in your $PATH.
base1 uses GNU's base64 tool as a reference and therefore has similar
command line arguments. This means, you can either pipe data in or give a file
as an argument.
The non-standard parameter -t will return the length of the string to be
encoded, or warn if it will overflow.
Can't do: even on 64 bit machines the length of the resulting string will be
larger than unsigned long long int. I en- and decoded the string Hallo - it
took 52 minutes!
echo -n "Hi" | ./base1 -w 0
will output 18794 As.
base1 is released under the GNU General Public License, version 3.
See LICENSE for details.
© 2016 Tobias Girstmair, isticktoit.net