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.TH BASE32 "1" "February 2017" "GNU coreutils 8.26" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
base32 \- base32 encode/decode data and print to standard output
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B base32
[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... [\fI\,FILE\/\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
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.PP
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.
.SH AUTHOR
Written by Simon Josefsson.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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Report base32 translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://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.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/base32>
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or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) base32 invocation\(aq