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+.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.35.
+.TH BASE64 "1" "March 2007" "GNU coreutils 6.9" "User Commands"
+.SH NAME
+base64 \- base64 encode/decode data and print to standard output
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B base64
+[\fIOPTION\fR] [\fIFILE\fR]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.\" Add any additional description here
+.PP
+Base64 encode or decode FILE, or standard input, to standard output.
+.TP
+\fB\-w\fR, \fB\-\-wrap\fR=\fICOLS\fR
+Wrap encoded lines after COLS character (default 76).
+Use 0 to disable line wrapping.
+.TP
+\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-decode\fR
+Decode data.
+.TP
+\fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-ignore\-garbage\fR
+When decoding, ignore non\-alphabet characters.
+.TP
+\fB\-\-help\fR
+Display this help and exit.
+.TP
+\fB\-\-version\fR
+Output version information and exit.
+.PP
+With no FILE, or when FILE is \-, read standard input.
+.PP
+The data are encoded as described for the base64 alphabet in RFC 3548.
+When decoding, the input may contain newlines in addition to the bytes of
+the formal base64 alphabet. Use \fB\-\-ignore\-garbage\fR to attempt to recover
+from any other non\-alphabet bytes in the encoded stream.
+.SH AUTHOR
+Written by Simon Josefsson.
+.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
+Report bugs to <bug\-coreutils@gnu.org>.
+.SH COPYRIGHT
+Copyright \(co 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.br
+This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
+the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
+There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+The full documentation for
+.B base64
+is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
+.B info
+and
+.B base64
+programs are properly installed at your site, the command
+.IP
+.B info base64
+.PP
+should give you access to the complete manual.