bash ascii to hex

Question

was wondering if anyone could help me with converting ascii to hex in bash. Example code:

#!/bin/bash 
STR = \"hello\"
#Convert to hex
HEXVAL = $STR #(in hex         


        

Answer 1

You have several options

$ printf hello | xxd
0000000: 6865 6c6c 6f                             hello

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