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Old 09-07-2011
Base 64 encoded string
Could anyone of you please give me some idea to decode base 64 encoded value in ksh?
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Old 09-07-2011
https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...ode-email.html
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Old 09-07-2011
Code:
 
echo "YOURSTRING" | perl -pe 'use MIME::Base64; print MIME::Base64::decode($_);'

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Old 09-07-2011
There is also the base64 program that's part of the GNU coreutils:

Code:
$ base64 --help |grep -F -- -d
  -d, --decode          Decode data.

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Old 09-07-2011
It works!. Thank you very much :-)
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