README.md

   1 # base65536
   2 Reimplementation of [ferno][1]'s [`base65536`][2] in C for UNIXoid shells.
   3
   4 ## Why
   5  * Why not?
   6  * beat [Twitter][3] and pack your tweet with 280 characters!
   7  * Annoy your friends!
   8
   9 ## Building
  10 To generate the binary, run `make`.
  11 If you want long options (e.g. --decode), enable `-DLONG_OPT`.
  12 To automatically run the included tests, run `make test`. (will rebuild)
  13 You can copy the resulting `base65536` file to a directory in your `$PATH`.
  14
  15 ## Usage
  16 `base65536` uses GNU's [`base64`][4] tool as a reference and therefore has the
  17 same command line arguments. This means, you can either pipe data in or give a
  18 file as an argument.
  19
  20 ### 'Hello World'-Example:
  21
  22     echo -n "Hello World" | ./base65536
  23
  24 will output:
  25
  26     驈ꍬ啯𒁗ꍲᕤ
  27
  28 ## License
  29 `base65536` is released under the GNU General Public License, version 3.
  30 See `LICENSE` for details.
  31 &copy; 2016 Tobias Girstmair, [isticktoit.net][5]
  32
  33 ## In other Languages
  34 * [JavaScript](https://github.com/ferno/base65536)
  35 * [Python](https://github.com/Parkayun/base65536)
  36 * [Go](https://github.com/Nightbug/go-base65536)
  37 * [Ruby](https://github.com/Nightbug/base65536-ruby)
  38 * [PHP](https://github.com/hevertonfreitas/base65536)
  39
  40 [1]: https://github.com/ferno/
  41 [2]: https://github.com/ferno/base65536
  42 [3]: https://twitter.com/girstmair
  43 [4]: http://linux.die.net/man/1/base64
  44 [5]: http://isticktoit.net/