| | 1 | # base1 |
| | 2 | |
| | 3 | Reimplementation of [ferno][1]'s [`base1`][2] in C for UNIXoid shells. |
| | 4 | |
| | 5 | ## Why |
| | 6 | * Why not? |
| | 7 | * guaranteed to be compatible with __any__ character set, no matter how small |
| | 8 | (theoretically) |
| | 9 | |
| | 10 | ## Building |
| | 11 | To generate the binary, run `make`. Then, copy the resulting `base1` binary to |
| | 12 | a directory in your `$PATH`. |
| | 13 | |
| | 14 | ## Usage |
| | 15 | `base1` uses GNU's [`base64`][4] tool as a reference and therefore has similar |
| | 16 | command line arguments. This means, you can either pipe data in or give a file |
| | 17 | as an argument. |
| | 18 | |
| | 19 | The non-standard parameter `-t` will return the length of the string to be |
| | 20 | encoded, or warn if it will overflow. |
| | 21 | |
| | 22 | ### 'Hello World'-Example: |
| | 23 | Can't do: even on 64 bit machines the length of the resulting string will be |
| | 24 | larger than `unsigned long long int`. I en- and decoded the string `Hallo` - it |
| | 25 | took 52 **minutes**! |
| | 26 | |
| | 27 | echo -n "Hi" | ./base1 -w 0 |
| | 28 | |
| | 29 | will output 18794 `A`s. |
| | 30 | |
| | 31 | ## License |
| | 32 | `base1` is released under the GNU General Public License, version 3. |
| | 33 | See `LICENSE` for details. |
| | 34 | © 2016 Tobias Girstmair, [isticktoit.net][5] |
| | 35 | |
| | 36 | ## In other Languages |
| | 37 | * [JavaScript](https://github.com/ferno/base1) |
| | 38 | |
| | 39 | [1]: https://github.com/ferno/ |
| | 40 | [2]: https://github.com/ferno/base1 |
| | 41 | [3]: https://twitter.com/girstmair |
| | 42 | [4]: http://linux.die.net/man/1/base64 |
| | 43 | [5]: http://isticktoit.net/ |
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