1993 and later versions of the Korn shell give you some other options. On Solaris 10, /bin/ksh is based on ksh88, but I believe /usr/dt/bin/dtksh should work (although i don't currently have access to a system to verify it).
If the hexadecimal values you're trying to convert can be represented in a long in the programming model used by the shell on your system, the script:
should do what you want. If you have arbitrarily long strings of hexadecimal digits, to convert to binary, I think the following script does what you want:
I used the file Input containing:
as a test case using /bin/ksh on OS X. The values show in red produced different results from these two scripts. The output produced by the 1st script above is:
and the output produced by the 2nd script above is:
Last edited by Don Cragun; 03-16-2014 at 09:45 PM..
Reason: Noted how the script were tested.
Dear all,
I am trying to write c-program to read the following file containing hexadecimal values (snippet of big data file).
I want to combine two hexadecimal values together like A0A03E01 and then would like to have the binary equivalent to perform further test on it. Unfortunately, it failed... (16 Replies)
Hi Guys,
Is it possible to convert the hexadecimal to Binary by unix command.....I could not figure out....
If I need to convert AF6D to binary...what could be the way to do?
Thanks in advance!!
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Hi,
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Hi frnds :)
I need a small help...
I have a very long file containing 20 digits decimal number which i want to convert into the corresponding 16 digit hexadecimal values.
File looks like....
11908486672755551741
05446378739602232559
04862605079740156652
.
.
.
I tried the script
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All,
I want to convert multiple \0 005 characters to line feed 012 character
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output:
0000000 254 355 \0 005 s r \0 * c o m . c i s c
Here is the sample od -b file output:
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i have a script called getevent
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