Problem with Base64

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So im following IPPSecs walkthrough for irked and he gets to a point where he finds a file, base64 encodes it and then pastes into a vi file on his kali machine and then base64 decodes it to find out how it runs.

I have followed his steps and vi the file on my kali but then when I try to base64 -d it I get the error base64: invalid input.
I have tried googling it and can’t find an explanation.

Is there something else I could do instead of base64?

TIA

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You’ve probably copied and pasted it along with some special non-base64 characters. Typically it’s a trailing newline or other whitespace characters elsewhere, in my experience.

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Awesome, ill give it a play with and hopefully can get it sorted.

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Tried it out and still no go… just used scp instead. Thanks though.