Bug 2275 - implement base64 from coreutils
Summary: implement base64 from coreutils
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Busybox
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P5 enhancement
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Reported: 2010-07-22 22:50 UTC by Christoph Anton Mitterer
Modified: 2010-08-31 13:45 UTC (History)
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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