How to execute ‘base64 --decode’ on selected text in Vim?

Question

I’m trying to execute base64 --decode on a piece of text selected in Visual mode, but it is the entire line that seems to be passed to the base64 comma

Answer 1

You can use Python instead, which should work.

Select lines that you want to decode in Visual mode (via V), then execute the following command:

:'<,'>!python -m base64 -d