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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting converting the data type in unix shell script Post 302248468 by cfajohnson on Friday 17th of October 2008 06:35:18 PM
Old 10-17-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by kmanivan82
I am trying to write a shell script to convet into packed decimal (comp -3) format.

I don't know how fractions are handled, but I think this will convert integers:

Code:
case $n in
  -*) sign=D ;;
  *) sign=C ;;
esac
while [ -n "$n" ]
do
  printf "%x" "'$n"
  n=${n#?}
done
echo "$sign"

If you know the formula, please post it, and I'll write a script to do the conversion.
 

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