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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2025-08-10 16:15:37 +0100 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2025-08-10 16:21:42 +0100 |
| commit | 192e09042fad51f417f801c376c772552517e112 (patch) | |
| tree | 1f9e1151953b4266c7da058e292e4f7bd5e1991c | |
| parent | doc: rearrange NEWS to more standard ordering (diff) | |
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doc: --base58: add example usage to info
* doc/coreutils.texi (basenc invocation): Add an example
using --base58 to generate a unique ID. This also demonstrates
compound usage of the basenc command, to convert to/from binary.
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 19de577e5..596cdbf4f 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -2378,6 +2378,10 @@ The format conforms to Base58 draft}. This encoding is useful for transcription as the output avoids visually similar characters. It's best suited to smaller amounts of data. +For example this generates a unique 128 bit ID in 22 bytes: +@example +uuidgen | basenc --base16 -di | basenc --base58 +@end example @item --base32 @opindex --base32 |