GNU bug report logs - #17360
base64 bug of result ending founded

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Алексей <gasx <at> rambler.ru>

Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 08:25:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a <at> gmx.de>, 17360-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17360: base64 bug of result ending founded
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 06:51:15 -0600

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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.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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