Yes, the default macOS base64
implementation doesn’t have the -w
flag. What does that flag do?
-w, --wrap=COLS
Wrap encoded lines after COLS character (default 76). Use 0 to disable line wrapping.
And here’s the macOS man page for base64
:
-b count --break=count
Insert line breaks every count characters. Default is 0, which generates an unbroken stream.
So, the flag is called -b
in macOS, and it already defaults to 0
, which means base64
in macOS has the same behaviour as base64 -w0
on Linux. You’ll have to detect which platform you run on to use the appropriate variation of the command. See here: Detect the OS from a Bash script; the platform name you’re looking for for macOS is “Darwin”.