From f5bf25dcf721272ebe84201f1539dd924d1b13f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Teunis de Boone <ericteunis@deboone.nl>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 01:58:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Cool utility to base64 a file

---
 bash/bash.d/network.bash | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 bash/bash.d/network.bash

diff --git a/bash/bash.d/network.bash b/bash/bash.d/network.bash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dd9a243
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bash/bash.d/network.bash
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+function data_url() {
+  if [ -z "$1" ]; then
+    cat << EndOfMessage
+Create a data URL that can be directly used in HTML.
+Usage: data_url <path_to_file>
+EndOfMessage
+    return
+  fi
+	local mime_type base64
+  mime_type=$(file -b --mime-type "$1")
+  if [[ "$mime_type" == 'image/svg' ]]; then
+    mime_type='image/svg+xml'
+  fi
+  base64=$(base64 "$1")
+	echo "data:$mime_type;base64,$base64";
+}