On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 22:17:37 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 9 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > do you know of a chart that shows the decimal notation like you > > > posted? (Its not in `man vga') > > > > > > And I don't recall where I got that from... where ever it was, it > > > probably also has the decimal equivalents. > > > > You can ignore this request... I found a nifty hex to decimal > > converter for vim here: > > http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/VimTip27
If you only want to convert one number (or an arithmetic expression) you
can write, e.g. ":echo 0x31a" in vim and be done with it. :-)
>
> A perhaps simpler way is to use the bc program (which needs to be
> installed for this to work, of course):
>
> $ echo 'obase=10; ibase=16; 31A' | bc
> 794
Or an even simpler way would be
$ echo $((0x31a))
794
Bash is really cool. It can understand numbers up to base 64. ;-)
Cheers,
Renat
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