What Is Base64
In computer science, Base64 is a group of binary-to-text encoding schemes that represent binary data in an ASCII string format by translating it into a radix-64 representation. The term Base64 originates from a specific MIME content transfer encoding. Each Base64 digit represents exactly 6 bits of data. Three 8-bit bytes (i.e., a total of 24 bits) can, therefore, be represented by four 6-bit Base64 digits.
actually, there is a lot of difference between encoding and encryption, in case you don’t know.
Tutorial
fire up your terminal and type
man base64
this command will show you the help menu of the base64 tool.
to encode a text in terminal:
echo "<your-text-here>" | base64
for example, we are encoding “technicalnavigtor”.
echo "technicalnavigator" | base64 output: dGVjaG5pY2FsbmF2aWdhdG9yCg==
now, if you want to decode it, type this command:
echo "dGVjaG5pY2FsbmF2aWdhdG9yCg==" | base64 --decode
with the help of this tool you can even encode a whole text file into base64:
base64 "filename.txt" > output.txt
and if you want to decode it:
base64 --decode <output.txt>
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