Hi there,
I've been looking for some base64 coding/decoding, the only thing I've found is:
do script "echo 'texthere' | openssl base64 -d"
The thing is that it works except for a word length limit, the word I'm trying to work with is very long (The sentence doesn't have spaces, but ampersands instead).
Is there any other Applescript method I can use?
Thank you very much
The -d switch on the openssl base64 command enables debugging; it's the short version of the --debug switch. Probably not what you're after, either. The -D switch would be more typical, that's the short version of --decode switch, and probably what you had intended.
The -i (--input) and -o (--output) switches allow you to specify input and output files, which is one way to pass a whole lot of data into that command.
Do you have an example of some of the text that you're working with?
Would a bash heredoc help? http://putnamhill.net/applescript/base64 The version of openssl I have on 10.6.8 uses the -d switch to specify decoding. A FreeBSD variation maybe?
The -D switch definition is from man base64 (the documentation for that part of openssl) on 10.7
I checked a 10.8.2 system and can confirm that it uses -D for decoding base64. Probably changed after 10.6.8.
Encode/Decode base64 text
