qonverteis a very simple pipe-based command line tool to convert between multiple data representation formats (hex, base64, base85, binary).The project is bad on a few aspects. It's node, so it's probably slow and quite large for something that won't be used often. I built this as a kind of exercise where I'm trying to make the whole tool look polished (i.e. autocompletion, actual data streaming), while simple. I don't really recommend using it in prod, but it it great for manual use in your shell.
echo "Hello world" | qonverte to hex > h.txt--> qonvertesHello worldto hex and writes it to a filecurl https://pastebin.com/raw/qTDyLpPT | qonverte base64--> Queries a URL and prints its base64-decoded content
npm i -g qonverte
When you install qonverte, it comes packaged with autocompletion support for bash, zsh and fish. You can manually reinstall them by typing npm run postinstall in the module directory.
The syntaxes are relatively natural / human-readable. 3 syntaxes are supported:
qonverte hex to base64qonverte hex--> Input is hex, will be qonverted to binary/textqonverte to base85--> Input is binary/text, will be qonverted to base85
Remember that qonverte is built around pipes, you give it something, it outputs something. There aren't — and won't be — any ways to use files or string arguments as input arguments. To input static data, use echo ... or < file. Output data will be sent to stdout by default, and you can use > file to store it as usual.