Re: [LinuxBIOS] Convert hex to dec

[Uwe Hermann]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 05:58:18AM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Uwe Hermann  [070704 19:47]:
> > I use some aliases in my .bashrc which are pretty handy for converting
> > HEX or BINARY or DECIMAL:
> >
> > alias HEX="ruby -e 'printf("0x%X\n", ARGV[0])'"
> > alias DEC="ruby -e 'printf("%d\n", ARGV[0])'"
> > alias BIN="ruby -e 'printf("%bb\n", ARGV[0])'"
> >
> > Usage:
> >
> > $ HEX 78
> > 0x4E
> > $ BIN 0x6a
> > 1101010b
> > $ DEC 0x72
> > 114
>
> cool stuff. Can it easily be fixed to convert  binary into hex or dec,
> too?

Yes, that works already (the syntax is a bit strange, though):

$ HEX 0b10101010
0xAA
$ DEC 0b10000011
131

Uwe.