Hex to Binary conversion in bash
I came up with this:
printf converts to hex, xxd -r -p takes the ascii hex stream and makes it actual binary
dumping with hexdump to prove it worked...
printf "%016x" 53687091200 | xxd -r -p | hexdump -C
Here's the script I use:
#!/bin/bash
# SCRIPT: hex2binary.sh
# USAGE: hex2binary.sh Hex_Number(s)
# PURPOSE: Hex to Binary Conversion. Takes input as command line
# arguments.
#####################################################################
# Script Starts Here #
#####################################################################
if [ $# -eq 0 ]
then
echo "Argument(s) not supplied "
echo "Usage: hex2binary.sh hex_number(s)"
else
echo -e "\033[1mHEX \t\t BINARY\033[0m"
while [ $# -ne 0 ]
do
DecNum=`printf "%d" $1`
Binary=
Number=$DecNum
while [ $DecNum -ne 0 ]
do
Bit=$(expr $DecNum % 2)
Binary=$Bit$Binary
DecNum=$(expr $DecNum / 2)
done
echo -e "$Number \t\t $Binary"
shift
# Shifts command line arguments one step.Now $1 holds second argument
unset Binary
done
fi
BC is a bit sensitive to case for hex values, change to uppercase and it should work
for j in C4 97 91 8C 85 87 C4 90 8C 8D 9A 83 81
do
BIN=$(echo "obase=2; ibase=16; $j" | bc )
echo $BIN
done
Output:
11000100
10010111
10010001
10001100
10000101
10000111
11000100
10010000
10001100
10001101
10011010
10000011
10000001