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.TH BASE32 "1" "August 2022" "GNU coreutils 8.32" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
base32 \- manual page for base32 8.32
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B base32
[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... [\fI\,FILE\/\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Base32 encode or decode FILE, or standard input, to standard output.
.PP
With no FILE, or when FILE is \-, read standard input.
.PP
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
.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\-w\fR, \fB\-\-wrap\fR=\fI\,COLS\/\fR
wrap encoded lines after COLS character (default 76).
Use 0 to disable line wrapping
.TP
\fB\-\-help\fR
display this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-\-version\fR
output version information and exit
.PP
The data are encoded as described for the base32 alphabet in RFC 4648.
When decoding, the input may contain newlines in addition to the bytes of
the formal base32 alphabet.  Use \fB\-\-ignore\-garbage\fR to attempt to recover
from any other non\-alphabet bytes in the encoded stream.
.PP
GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/base32>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) base32 invocation'
.SH AUTHOR
Written by Simon Josefsson.
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.