Bug 2275

Summary: implement base64 from coreutils
Product: Busybox Reporter: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo>
Component: OtherAssignee: unassigned
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: enhancement CC: busybox-cvs
Priority: P5    
Version: unspecified   
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Description Christoph Anton Mitterer 2010-07-22 22:50:42 UTC 
Hi.

It would be nice if you could add base64 from GNU coreutils.
Especially including the -d and -w options.

It shouldn't need much storage, as bas64 functionality is already included in busybox' uuencode implementation, I guess.

I think this would have a big benefit, coreutils is an essential part of nearly every Linux distribution and therefore always installed.
uuencode/decode however is often packaged as sharutils and optional. Therefore people tend to use base64.
Comment 1 Denys Vlasenko 2010-08-31 12:10:31 UTC 
Fixed in git:

http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=ee06264a29c81a2d309c9919222d61ff92aa7b7c

Will be in 1.18.x