Images as Code

Today I wanted to encode an image as Base64 in order to add it to an image HTML tag src.I use a Mac for the majority of my development and in Terminal it's a one liner:

$ cat /path/to/img/file | base64
SGVsbG8gVGVjaFJhbQo=

This is also like ot be the case in Linux too and wile I can appreciate the usefulness of knowing how to do this in Java or Python, it's always handy to know the command line approach.