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 ## autorization
 If you want to use the API with curl and want to use authentication, you can do this by passing the `X-IFM-AUTH` header.  This header is constructed like the widely known basic authorization header. Just join username and password with a colon and do a base64 encode:
 ```bash
-$ echo -e "username:password" | base64
+$ echo -en "username:password" | base64
 dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ=
 $ curl -H "X-IFM-Auth: dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ=" ...
 ```
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