How to choose Encoding and Base algorithm?

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Hi,

Currently trying to understand the prefix of the CIDv1 I tried to change the encoding algorithm and the base encoding however there is no flag to precise it. We can choose the hash algorithm with the flag

 --hash

But not the encoding and the base.

Any ideas ?

Thank you for your time

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ipfs cid --help… ipfs cid format... allows you to swap bases etc.

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ok so if I understand we can convert a existing CID to another base but we can’t create it directly with the wanted base encoding.

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Yes… (but note that the CID is the same… changing the base is just changing the text representation of it).

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thank you for your time

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Also, you might want to check out https://cid.ipfs.io/ to see a visual deconstruction of a CID