Binco: Binary-Text Encoder-Decoder

binco is a CLI-oriented binary-text encoder and decoder.

Currently supports:

• array_c: C array (encoding only)
• array_csharp: C# array (encoding only)
• array_d: D array (encoding only)
• ascii85: Ascii85
• base16: Hexadecimal
• base64: Base64
• base64u: Base64 URL without padding, RFC 4648 and 7515
• base64up: Base64 URL with padding
• base91: basE91
• intelhex, ihex: Intel HEX (entry types 00 and 01 only)
• srecord, srec: Motorola S-Record
• uuencode: UUEncoding
• xxencode: XXEncoding

Why? Well, I want to stop using random websites for this sort of thing.

Usage

An encoding (using -e) or decoding (-d) scheme needs to be specified.

By default, stdin and stdout streams are used for input and output.

To specify a file input, use -i|--input. For file output, use -o|--output.

Encode file and show result to stdout:

$ binco -e base64 -i dub.sdl
bmFtZSAiYmluY28iCmRlc2NyaXB0aW9uICJCaW5hcnkgRW5jb2Rlci9EZWNvZGVyIgphdXRob3Jz
ICJkZDg2ayA8ZGRAZGF4Lm1vZT4iCmNvcHlyaWdodCAiQ29weXJpZ2h0IMKpIDIwMjMsIGRkODZr
IDxkZEBkYXgubW9lPiIKbGljZW5zZSAiQlNELTMtQ2xhdXNlLUNsZWFyIgoKdGFyZ2V0VHlwZSAi
ZXhlY3V0YWJsZSIKCnN0cmluZ0ltcG9ydFBhdGhzICIuIg==

Encode stream to base64:

$ echo 123 | binco -e base64
MTIzIA0K

Encode file as a C array:

$ binco -i bin -e array_c

Decode file to another file:

$ binco -i example.txt -d base64 -o example.exe

Transcode a file to another encoding:

$ binco -i a.txt -d base16 -e base64 -o b.txt

Limitations

Newlines

Currently, due to a limitation to File.byLine, only the \n line terminator is understood by the decoder.

Building

To build binco, you'll need any D compiler (dmd, gdc, ldc) and dub.

Tests: dub test

Debug build: dub build

Release build: dub build -b release

With LDC: dub build -b release --compiler=ldc2