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Manual: gnubase32

BASE32(1)					User Commands					   BASE32(1)

NAME
       base32 - base32 encode/decode data and print to standard output

SYNOPSIS
       base32 [OPTION]... [FILE]

DESCRIPTION
       Base32 encode or decode FILE, or standard input, to standard output.

       With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

       -d, --decode
	      decode data

       -i, --ignore-garbage
	      when decoding, ignore non-alphabet characters

       -w, --wrap=COLS
	      wrap encoded lines after COLS character (default 76).  Use 0 to disable line wrapping

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

       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 --ignore-garbage to at‐
       tempt to recover from any other non-alphabet bytes in the encoded stream.

AUTHOR
       Written by Simon Josefsson.

REPORTING BUGS
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SEE ALSO
       basenc(1)

       Full documentation 
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) base32 invocation'

       Packaged by Ubuntu (9.7-3ubuntu2.1)
       Copyright Β© 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later .
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
       There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

GNU coreutils 9.7				 August 2026					   BASE32(1)