Ascii/Hex convert in bash

Question

I\'m now doing it this way:

[root@~]# echo Aa|hexdump -v
0000000 6141 000a                              
0000003
[root@~]# echo -e \"\\x41\\x41\\x41\\x41\"
A         


        

Answer 1

echo append a carriage return at the end.

Use

echo -e

to remove the extra 0x0A

Also, hexdump does not work byte-per-byte as default. This is why it shows you bytes in a weird endianess and why it shows you an extra 0x00.

Answer 2

With bash :

a=abcdefghij    
for ((i=0;i<${#a};i++));do printf %02X \'${a:$i:1};done

6162636465666768696A

Answer 3

SteinAir's answer above was helpful to me -- thank you! And below is a way it inspired, to convert hex strings to ascii:

for h in $(echo "4161" | sed "s/\(..\)/\1 /g"); do printf `echo "\x$h"`;done
Aa

Answer 4

here a little script I wrote to convert ascii to hex. hope it helps:

echo '0x'"`echo 'ASCII INPUT GOES HERE' | hexdump -vC |  awk 'BEGIN {IFS="\t"} {$1=""; print }' | awk '{sub(/\|.*/,"")}1'  | tr -d '\n' | tr -d ' '`" | rev | cut -c 3- | rev

Answer 5

For single line solution:

echo "Hello World" | xxd -ps -c 200 | tr -d '\n'

It will print:

48656c6c6f20576f726c640a

or for files:

cat /path/to/file | xxd -ps -c 200 | tr -d '\n'

For reverse operation:

echo '48656c6c6f20576f726c640a' | xxd -ps -r

It will print:

Hello World

Answer 6

jcomeau@aspire:~$ echo -n The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog | python -c "print raw_input().encode('hex'),"
54686520717569636b2062726f776e20666f78206a756d7073206f76657220746865206c617a7920646f67
jcomeau@aspire:~$ echo -n The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog | python -c "print raw_input().encode('hex')," | python -c "print raw_input().decode('hex'),"
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

it could be done with Python3 as well, but differently, and I'm a lazy dog.