Re: base64 coding for zsh ?

["Brian K. White" <brian@aljex.com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marc Chantreux" <marc.chantreux@ulpmm.u-strasbg.fr>
To: <zsh-users@sunsite.dk>
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: base64 coding for zsh ?


le 13/09/2006,
Brian K. White nous crivait :
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 11:08 AM
> alias B64enc='openssl base64'
> alias B64dec='openssl base64 -d'
> 
> I've been using the stand-alone:
> http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/base64/
> 
> I never realised I already had it in openssl.
> Thanks for the tip.

I didn't know that before yesterday but it was a bad idea in fact :
openssl base64 doesn't handle utf8 encoded content. So i found recode
command. 

finaly :

alias b64dec='recode b64..data'
alias b64enc='recode data..b64'

benches are welcome ;)

---------

Not good but not horrible.
Consistently slower than everything else but only microscopically.
Even though it's the slowest of all, you still have to call it "fast".

nj4:~ # time recode data..b64 </boot/vmlinuz >/dev/null

real    0m0.086s
user    0m0.080s
sys     0m0.008s
nj4:~ #

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