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+#!/bin/bash
+
+usage () {
+    echo "This is a replacement for base32 (from GNU coreutils), which is not easily available on ci-centos machines.
+
+Usage:
+  pipe content to be encoded into this executable, or pipe content with -d to decode.
+
+Examples:
+  echo 'some string that I used to know' | $0 # ONXW2ZJAON2HE2LOM4QHI2DBOQQESIDVONSWIIDUN4QGW3TPO4======
+  echo 'ONXW2ZJAON2HE2LOM4QHI2DBOQQESIDVONSWIIDUN4QGW3TPO4======' | $0 -d # some string that I used to know
+"
+    exit
+}
+
+DECODE=0
+for i in "$@"
+do
+case $i in
+    -d) DECODE=1; shift;;
+    --help|--version) usage; shift;;
+esac
+done
+
+read -t 60 TEXT
+
+if [ $DECODE -eq 1 ];then
+    python3 -c "import base64; print(base64.b32decode(bytearray('$TEXT', 'ascii')).decode('utf-8'))"    
+else
+    python3 -c "import base64; print(base64.b32encode(bytearray('$TEXT', 'ascii')).decode('utf-8'))"
+fi
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