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doc: --base58: add example usage to info

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* doc/coreutils.texi (basenc invocation): Add an example
using --base58 to generate a unique ID.  This also demonstrates
compound usage of the basenc command, to convert to/from binary.
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@@ -2378,6 +2378,10 @@ The format conforms to
Base58 draft}.
This encoding is useful for transcription as the output avoids
visually similar characters. It's best suited to smaller amounts of data.
For example this generates a unique 128 bit ID in 22 bytes:
@example
uuidgen | basenc --base16 -di | basenc --base58
@end example
@item --base32
@opindex --base32