-b|--base64 arguments to print base64 encoded image data to stdout

[JayBrown]

First of all… thank you very much for this fantastic little tool. Has already come in handy.

An idea: we already have a request for printing to stdout, and another related addition would be printing the image data to stdout as base64. Example:

file-icon /Applications/foo.app --size 1024 -b > /tmp/foo_icon_1024_base64.txt

[sindresorhus]

What's the use-case for needing it as base64?

And by the way, you can already do:

base64 <<< `file-icon /Applications/Safari.app --size 1024` > /tmp/foo_icon_1024_base64.txt

[JayBrown]

Ah, thank you for the tip. I will (for example) need the base64 functionality to ad-hoc print application icons in a menulet dropdown menu that's running in BitBar/xbar/SwiftBar.