how to get one base64 encode string from linux shell

[frederick van tagero]

i want to do a test with smtp auth connection, but i do not how to get one base64 string from bash shell, such as for "123456"

rgds,
Frederick

[Steven E. Protter]

I need more details to help you.

smtp

simple mail transfer protocol

A test for you.

sendmail -v -d8 -d38 someone@domain.com

type some text


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You'll get a fine test of your mail server and transfer situation.

SEP

[Stuart Browne]

To generate the base64 stuff though, I'd say perl, and MIME::Base64 module.

It should be installed by default on a RH8 system, otherwise CPAN should be able to grab it for you pretty easily.

A simple line such as:

echo blah | perl -e 'use MIME::Base64 qw(encode_base64);print encode_base64(<>);'

is all that's required (this is outlined in the man page for MIME::Base64).