3 ms·
How did they figure out to use the tool in the first place? Copied from Stackoverflow? Guessed?
by blueflow 3y ago
How did they figure out to use the tool in the first place? Copied from Stackoverflow? Guessed?
- Zambyte 3y agoI can't answer that because I'm not them, but maybe man...? My point is that: - base64 is a stupid easy command to use the default behavior (guessing is easily possible) - they probably would not have retained flags from the man page unless they needed to use them the first time they used base64 - they probably didn't need to use any flags with base64 in the past - it's perfectly reasonable to expect base64 to base64 long inputs the same way it encodes short ones. In fact I would say any other suggestion is unreasonable - it is perfectly reasonable to not read the man page again when you have a concrete expectation of how a program should behave