From 192e09042fad51f417f801c376c772552517e112 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?= Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2025 16:15:37 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: --base58: add example usage to info * doc/coreutils.texi (basenc invocation): Add an example using --base58 to generate a unique ID. This also demonstrates compound usage of the basenc command, to convert to/from binary. --- doc/coreutils.texi | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 19de577e51..596cdbf4fe 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -2378,6 +2378,10 @@ The format conforms to Base58 draft}. This encoding is useful for transcription as the output avoids visually similar characters. It's best suited to smaller amounts of data. +For example this generates a unique 128 bit ID in 22 bytes: +@example +uuidgen | basenc --base16 -di | basenc --base58 +@end example @item --base32 @opindex --base32 -- 2.47.3