I have a text file which each line is a one word coded base64 separely. Now I want to decode it. I'm trying to use base64 command line, but I'm getting all the words in only one line, I want one per line.
For example, my file is:
Y2F0Cg==
ZG9nCg==
aG91c2UK
I want as result:
dog
cat
house
But I'm getting:
dogcathouse
I think xargs could help, but I'm not getting the point.
Use base64 --decode
together with a loop:
$ while IFS= read -r line; do echo "$line" | base64 --decode; done < file
cat
dog
house