{"id":125,"date":"2013-10-09T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/Hayek\/Jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/2013\/10\/09\/how-to-easily-display-a-base64-encoded-file\/"},"modified":"2013-10-09T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T20:00:00","slug":"how-to-easily-display-a-base64-encoded-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2013\/10\/09\/how-to-easily-display-a-base64-encoded-file\/","title":{"rendered":"how to easily display a base64 encoded file"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tI wondered, how I could achieve that on various Unix platforms, and I ran the following command on my Linux box:<\/p>\n

$ man -k base64<\/span>
base64 (1) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 – base64 encode\/decode data and print to standard output<\/span>
MIME::Base64 (3pm) \u00a0 – Encoding and decoding of base64 strings<\/span><\/p>\n

\n<\/div>\n
\nRight the utility base64 (beloning to GNU coreutils) would do it, if it were broadly available; on AIX you can’t expect GNU coreutils to be installed.<\/div>\n
\nThe MIME::Base64 man page shows a nice perl one-liner making use of a perl module, which is rather likely to be installed:<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n
\n$ perl -MMIME::Base64 -ne ‘print decode_base64($_)’ <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wondered, how I could achieve that on various Unix platforms, and I ran the following command on my Linux box: $ man -k base64base64 (1) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 – base64 encode\/decode data and print to standard outputMIME::Base64 (3pm) \u00a0 – Encoding and decoding of base64 strings Right the utility base64 (beloning to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[62,623,673],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cli","category-the-perl-programming-language","category-unix_utilities"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-21","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}