On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 02:45:42PM -0400, IT1 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR wrote: > It is rather simplistic to perform a conversion of a number from any > base to base 10 in bash using such construction as: echo $((36#AB1CDE1)) > > However, the greatness of the foregoing notwithstanding, it would be > most utilitarian indeed to have the ability to do base conversion from > base 10 to any other base as easily as is capable with the > aforementioned construction.
While such a feature does not exist within Bash, you can always use bc to do it: imadev:~$ echo "obase=36; 22435208137" | bc 10 11 01 12 13 14 01
