> On the plus side, you do get a prize for suggesting it Good catch! I actually use another command that generates binary output that I pipe to OpenSSL to conv

> On the plus side, you do get a prize for suggesting it Good catch! I actually use another command that generates binary output that I pipe to OpenSSL to convert to base64 but rather than type out the full command I thought 'what's the easiest way to get some binary data on stdout' and 'cat binaryfile' was it.