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Old 12-15-2008
Bug How to get ascii value using shell commands/script
Hi gurus,

Need command/code to get the ASCII value for a character say 65 for A and vice versa in shell script.

Thanks in advance
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Old 12-15-2008
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Originally Posted by kittu1979
Need command/code to get the ASCII value for a character say 65 for A and vice versa in shell script.

Code:
## Character to ASCII
printf "%d\n" "'A"

## ASCII number to character
awk -v char=65 'BEGIN { printf "%c\n", char; exit }'

Last edited by cfajohnson; 12-15-2008 at 04:23 PM..
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Old 12-15-2008
Hammer & Screwdriver What about
Code:
> echo "A" | tr -d "\n" | od -An -t dC
   65
> echo "X" | tr -d "\n" | od -An -t dC
   88
> echo "a" | tr -d "\n" | od -An -t dC
   97

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