Convert decimal to hexadecimal in UNIX shell scrip

Question

In a UNIX shell script, what can I use to convert decimal numbers into hexadecimal? I thought od would do the trick, but it's not realizing I'm feeding it ASCII representations of numbers.

printf? Gross! Using it for now, but what else is available?

Answer 1

In zsh you can do this sort of thing:

% typeset -i 16 y
% print $(( [#8] x = 32, y = 32 ))
8#40
% print $x $y
8#40 16#20
% setopt c_bases
% print $y
0x20

Example taken from zsh docs page about Arithmetic Evaluation.

I believe Bash has similar capabilities.

Answer 2

xd() {
    printf "hex> "
    while read i
    do
        printf "dec  $(( 0x${i} ))\n\nhex> "
    done
}
dx() {
    printf "dec> "
    while read i
    do
        printf 'hex  %x\n\ndec> ' $i
    done
}

Answer 3

Try:

printf "%X\n" ${MY_NUMBER}

Answer 4

In my case, I stumbled upon one issue with using printf solution:

$ printf "%x" 008 bash: printf: 008: invalid octal number

The easiest way was to use solution with bc, suggested in post higher:

$ bc <<< "obase=16; 008" 8

Answer 5

Sorry my fault, try this...

#!/bin/bash
:

declare -r HEX_DIGITS="0123456789ABCDEF"

dec_value=$1
hex_value=""

until [ $dec_value == 0 ]; do

    rem_value=$((dec_value % 16))
    dec_value=$((dec_value / 16))

    hex_digit=${HEX_DIGITS:$rem_value:1}

    hex_value="${hex_digit}${hex_value}"

done

echo -e "${hex_value}"

Example:

$ ./dtoh 1024
400

Answer 6

# number conversion.

while `test $ans='y'`
do
    echo "Menu"
    echo "1.Decimal to Hexadecimal"
    echo "2.Decimal to Octal"
    echo "3.Hexadecimal to Binary"
    echo "4.Octal to Binary"
    echo "5.Hexadecimal to  Octal"
    echo "6.Octal to Hexadecimal"
    echo "7.Exit"

    read choice
    case $choice in

        1) echo "Enter the decimal no."
           read n
           hex=`echo "ibase=10;obase=16;$n"|bc`
           echo "The hexadecimal no. is $hex"
           ;;

        2) echo "Enter the decimal no."
           read n
           oct=`echo "ibase=10;obase=8;$n"|bc`
           echo "The octal no. is $oct"
           ;;

        3) echo "Enter the hexadecimal no."
           read n
           binary=`echo "ibase=16;obase=2;$n"|bc`
           echo "The binary no. is $binary"
           ;;

        4) echo "Enter the octal no."
           read n
           binary=`echo "ibase=8;obase=2;$n"|bc`
           echo "The binary no. is $binary"
           ;;

        5) echo "Enter the hexadecimal no."
           read n
           oct=`echo "ibase=16;obase=8;$n"|bc`
           echo "The octal no. is $oct"
           ;;

        6) echo "Enter the octal no."
           read n
           hex=`echo "ibase=8;obase=16;$n"|bc`
           echo "The hexadecimal no. is $hex"
           ;;

        7) exit 
        ;;
        *) echo "invalid no." 
        ;;

    esac
done