Christopher Kerr wrote: > After being burned by using `head -c6 /dev/urandom | base64` as part of a > directory name, I realised that it would be useful if base64 had an option to > generate URL and Filename safe encodings, as specified in RFC 3548 section 4. > > This would make > cat FILE | base64 --filename-safe > equivalent to > cat FILE | base64 | tr '+/' '-_'
Not a bad idea. I've needed stuff like that before: http://www.pixelbeat.org/libs/base64.c Perhaps `tr '+/' '._'` would be better so that you don't need to worry about "-" at the start of a filename? Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
