convert hex base16 to integer 5

[AlbertAguirre]

How?

heres my val:
00000e10

How do I make that an int in a shell script?

awk?

 

[sbrews]

bc is your friend.

DEC=`echo "ibase=16; E10"|bc`
echo $DEC
3600

 

[sbrews]

ps - be sure to enter your hex "digits" in uppercase.

 

[PHV]

I personally use this awk function:
function hex2dec(h ,i,x,v){
h=tolower(h);sub(/^0x/,"",h)
for(i=1;i<=length(h);++i){
x=index("0123456789abcdef",substr(h,i,1))
if(!x)return"NaN"
v=(16*v)+x-1
}
return v
}

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[AlbertAguirre]

HAHAHA!! Man! Thank you so much...

I have been slaving over this for 4 hours and you give me a 2 line answer that works perfectly... Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

i know nothing.

Thank you thank you thank you!!!

 

[Ogzilal]

Hi,

You can also use printf in your shell

printf "%d\n" 0x000e10
3600

tested with AIX/ksh and Linux/bash

 

[AlbertAguirre]

killer. Thanx!