base-x-bin
v1.0.2
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Command line utility for fast base encoding / decoding of any given alphabet
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base-x-bin
Command line utility for fast base encoding / decoding of any given alphabet using bitcoin style leading zero compression.
Examples
-a
to use a built-in alphabet (see Alphabets)-d
|--decode
to decode-i
|--inline
for an inline alphabet argument
Base58
echo "test" | basex -a 58
// E8f4pE5
echo -n "E8f4pE5" | basex -d -a 58
// test
cat /dev/urandom | head -c 32 | basex -a 58
// 5F8C26whY3W4kXToXVziUE6WACBwjx3bNRuG1ekQ9M8d
Custom
echo "Z" | basex -d -i "012"
// 10110
echo -n "10100" | basex -d -i "012"
// "Z"
cat /dev/urandom | head -c 32 | basex -i "012"
// 12121200000212100001002211221001110102210001110221022102001100020201012022102112001010101210020001011021020020021102211121221000010110222201211201001011200002022
Alphabets
Below is the list of included alphabets, and their respective base.
Base | Alphabet
------------- | -------------
2 | 01
8 | 01234567
11 | 0123456789a
16 | 0123456789abcdef
32 | 0123456789ABCDEFGHJKMNPQRSTVWXYZ
36 | 0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
58 | 123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz
62 | 0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
64 | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/
66 | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-_.!~
How it works
See https://github.com/cryptocoinjs/base-x