GNU bug report logs - #26372
Base64 inserts carriage return

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Goulven Guillard <lecotegougdelaforce <at> free.fr>

Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 15:27:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Goulven Guillard <lecotegougdelaforce <at> free.fr>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Base64 inserts carriage return
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 12:39:43 +0200

Hi,

It seems `base64` inserts a carriage return ("Cg==") when encoding a 
string :

$ echo foobar|base64
Zm9vYmFyCg==

If this is the desired behaviour, it should at least be documented since 
it is not obvious (and BTW different from e.g. PHP base64_encode).

Confirmed with coreutils 8.23-4 under Debian and coreutils 2.24-8.fc23 
under Fedora.

Regards,

Goulven Guillard.
This bug report was last modified 8 years and 107 days ago.

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