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Encode or Decode base64 from the Command Line | If you have ever needed to quickly decode or encode base64, Linux has a command line utility called base64 that works great. I’ll show you how it works! To encode text to base64, use the following syntax: $ echo ‘scottlinux.com rocks’ | base64 c2NvdHRsaW51eC5jb20gcm9ja3MK To decode, use base64 -d. To decode base64, use a syntax