Re: OT: base64 encoded messages

Yong Huang wrote:
> From time to time, we receive some people's postings as Base 64 encoded
> messages that are shown as:
>
> $ head -3 qq
> SSBoYXZlIGZvdW5kIGFuIGludGVyZXN0aW5nIHNpdHVhdGlvbiBoZXJlLCBhbmQgaGF2ZSBydW4g
>

[...]
> those that can't read (like me) can use this trick to read:
>
> $ cat base64decode.pl
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
> use MIME::Base64 qw(decode_base64);
>

[...]

Or if you have base64 (GNU coreutils):

base64 -d filename

Dimitre

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