Subject: bug#17360: base64 bug of result ending founded

From: Eric Blake <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 06:51:15 -0600

tag 17360 notabug
thanks

On 04/28/2014 02:56 AM, Ruediger Meier wrote:
> On Monday 28 April 2014, Алексей wrote:
>> I take some difference of results base64 command and base64 php
>> function
>>
>> *echo "111111" | base64*
>> give result
>> *MTExMTExCg==*
> 
> echo prints a newline per default
> $ echo -n "111111" | base64
> MTExMTEx
> 

'echo -n' is not portable; the portable spelling is:

printf 111111 | base64

But the analysis is correct - depending on whether you feed the trailing
newline as part of the buffer to be encoded, the base64 encoding is
correct either way.  So I'm closing this as not a bug.

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