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Nitpick, but enclosing the first string in single quotes would make the reading better:

$ echo '{"' | base64

Vs

$ echo "{\"" | base64



That's a huge pet peeve of mine, but similar to the control-r comment elsewhere, I have just come to terms with the fact that most developers are allergic to shell




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