#base64 encode a file

Recently I came across a use case to store the license associated with a software securely in a vault. The license was a binary file. The only way to store in the secure vault was to convert it as a string. I used the following command to convert the file into a single line base64 string. cat <file-name> | base64 -w 0 The -w 0 option aligns the encoded string into a single line string. If you…