Images as Code

22 Apr 2016 · 📖 in last than a minute One line wonder!

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.

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