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Encoding and Decoding base64 in Shell

Encode string to base64

echo 'some text' | base64

Decode base64

echo 'c29tZSB0ZXh0Cgo=' | base64 -d

Encode file

base64 -i some-file.txt -o some-file.base64

Decoding file

base64 -d -i some-file.base64 -o some-file.txt