Command Line Number Conversion
August 7, 2007 – 6:58 pmTip courtesy of Kyle Reynolds at http://www.camelrichard.org
How To Convert Numbers to Decimal on the Command Line:
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to convert HEX to decimal:
echo “ibase=16; 38E” | bc
(where ibase is the number base, for HEX, 16 and the number following the ; is the number
you wish to convert)
For Octal, change the ibase to 8, for Binary, change the ibase to 2.