Shell Programming and Scripting

Users can enter query in decimal. You just need to change the decimal to a suitable matching hexadecimal format.

I am looking at bc now, converting dec input to hex may actually be easier since I am completely untrained and new at this. I can strip off the 0x (actually just pull out the part where I added it) then make the decimal input 3 characters before conversion.

Can't you just use shell?

Code:

while IFS=, read val x; do 
  printf "%s\t%d\n" "$val" "$val"
done < infile

Code:

0x0C0	192
0x011	17
0x009	9
0x011	17
0x00E	14
0x008	8
0x034	52
0x001	1
0x00E	14
0x034	52
0x00F	15
0x009	9

Just to provide resolution, I have gone with the convert the decimal input option and after another day of learing this is what I came up with:

Code:

 
#!/bin/bash
echo "Site number:"
read decsite
hexsite=`echo "obase=16;$decsite"|bc`
hexfix=$(printf "%.3X" 0x$hexsite)

This gives me the 3-character hex value I need to GREP out the information I want going forward and lets the user just enter any old decimal digits.

Thank you for all your help people!

My next thing is to see if I can get it to work in sh instead of bash for universal portability.