How to base64 encode image in linux bash / shell

Question

I\'m trying to base64 encode an image in a shell script and put it into variable:

test=\"$(printf DSC_0251.JPG | base64)\"
echo $test
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Answer 1

Single line result:

base64 -w 0 DSC_0251.JPG

For HTML:

echo "data:image/jpeg;base64,$(base64 -w 0 DSC_0251.JPG)"

As file:

base64 -w 0 DSC_0251.JPG > DSC_0251.JPG.base64

In variable:

IMAGE_BASE64="$(base64 -w 0 DSC_0251.JPG)"

In variable for HTML:

IMAGE_BASE64="data:image/jpeg;base64,$(base64 -w 0 DSC_0251.JPG)"

Get you readable data back:

base64 -d DSC_0251.base64 > DSC_0251.JPG 

See: http://www.greywyvern.com/code/php/binary2base64