I'm looking for an easy way in Bash to convert a decimal number into a binary number. I have variables that need to be converted:
$ip1 $ip2 $ip3 $ip4
Is there a simple method to do this without looking at every individual number?
I would prefer not to have to write a lot of code.
Convert decimal to binary with bash builtin commands (range 0 to 255):
D2B=({0..1}{0..1}{0..1}{0..1}{0..1}{0..1}{0..1}{0..1})
echo ${D2B[7]}
00000111
echo ${D2B[85]}
01010101
echo ${D2B[127]}
01111111
To remove leading zeros, e.g. from ${D2B[7]}
:
echo $((10#${D2B[7]}))
111
This creates an array with 00000000 00000001 00000010 ... 11111101 11111110 11111111
with bash‘s brace expansion. The position in array D2B represents its decimal value.
See also: Understanding code ({0..1}{0..1}{0..1}{0..1}{0..1}{0..1}{0..1}{0..1})
General method for converting an integer number into another representation with another base (but base<=10 because of using digits 0..9 for representation, only):
function convertIntvalToBase () # (Val Base)
{
val=$1
base=$2
result=""
while [ $val -ne 0 ] ; do
result=$(( $val % $base ))$result #residual is next digit
val=$(( $val / $base ))
done
echo -n $result
}
e.g.
convertIntvalToBase $ip1 2 # converts $ip1 into binary representation
Decimal to binary conversion in Bash:
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 to do this.
Convert the decimals 1 through 5 to binary.
el@apollo:~$ bc <<< "obase=2;1"
1
el@apollo:~$ bc <<< "obase=2;2"
10
el@apollo:~$ bc <<< "obase=2;3"
11
el@apollo:~$ bc <<< "obase=2;4"
100
el@apollo:~$ bc <<< "obase=2;5"
101
Bonus example:
el@apollo:~$ bc <<< "obase=2;1024"
10000000000
el@apollo:~$ bc <<< "obase=2;2^128"
100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000