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Bash script to base64 encode the given file and output a CSS background-image declaration
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base64enc.sh
#!/bin/bash
base64=`openssl base64 -in $1`
mime=`file -b --mime-type $1`
echo "background-image: url(data:${mime};base64,${base64});" | tr -d '\n'
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Instructions.md

Usage

In a terminal, run ./base64enc.sh /path/to/file.png

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