corrlens wrote:
> "Brian K. White" <brian@aljex.com> wrote in message
> news:6Omdnc76apH_kVjdRVn-tw@comcast.com...
>> corrlens wrote:
>>> Do you know of unix command that will convert a jpg file into
>>> base64binary format ?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>> http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/index.html#base64
>>
>
> Just for the record, To reverse this process is it done with uudecode
> ?
>
>
> Thanks

base64 -d

there isn't a man-page, but....

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# base64 -h
base64: ERROR: Illegal option -- h
base64 -- Encode/decode file as base64. Call:
base64 [-e / -d] [options] [infile] [outfile]

Options:
--copyright Print copyright information
-d, --decode Decode base64 encoded file
-e, --encode Encode file into base64
-n, --noerrcheck Ignore errors when decoding
-u, --help Print this message
--version Print version number

by John Walker
http://www.fourmilab.ch/
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