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danbeam/Simple bash function to shove stdin through base64 and spit out a data URI

Created May 19, 2011 21:47
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Simple bash function to shove stdin through base64 and spit out a data URI
# lets you do echo 'lol' | todata
# or cat filename | todata
# and it'll spit out a nice data URI
todata() {
if [ ! -t 0 ]; then
php -r "echo 'data:text/plain;base64,'.base64_encode(file_get_contents('php://stdin')); }" && echo;
fi
}
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