The base64 command encodes binary strings using the base64 encoding format.
This command is not supported for the proxy.
base64 subcommand[options]
The base64 command encodes binary strings into text representations using the base64 encoding format. Base64 encoding is often used in LDIF files to represent non-ASCII character strings. It is also frequently used to encode certificate contents or the output of message digests such as MD5 or SHA.
The following subcommands are used with the base64 command.
Decodes base64-encoded information into raw data. Suboptions are as follows:
-d, --encodedData encoded-data. Base64-encoded data to be decoded to raw data.
-f, --encodedDataFile filename. Path to the file that contains the base64-encoded data to be decoded.
-o, --toRawFile filename. Path to the file to which the raw data should be written.
Encodes raw data to base64. Suboptions are as follows:
-d, --rawData raw-data. Raw data to be base64–encoded.
-f, --rawDataFile filename. Path to the file that contains the raw data to be base64–encoded.
-o, --toEncodedFile filename. Path to the file to which the base64-encoded data should be written.
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The following examples show how to use the directory server commands. You can use the commands on any UNIX, Linux, or Windows system that has at least the Java SE 5 (at least Sun version 1.5.0_08, preferably the latest version of Java SE 6) runtime environment installed on its target system.
The following command base64-encodes the string opends.
$ base64 encode -d opends b3BlbmRz
The following command base64-encodes the file (-f) and writes to an output file (-o).
$ base64 encode -f myrawdata -o myencodeddata
The following command decodes a base64–encoded string.
$ base64 decode -d b3BlbmRz opends
The following command decodes the file base64–encoded file (-f) and writes to an output file (-o).
$ base64 encode -f myencodeddata -o myoutput
The following command encodes and decodes on Linux from the command-line. After you enter the clear-text string, press Control-D to signal the end of input on the command line.
$ base64 encode hello world <CTRL-D> aGVsbGBqd29ybGQK $ base64 decode aGVsbG8gd29ybGQK <CTRL-D> hello world
An exit code of 0 indicates that the operation completed successfully. An exit code of 1 indicates that an error occurred during processing.
UNIX and Linux: install-dir/bin/base64
Windows: install-dir\bat\base64.bat