ankush grover wrote: ... > Important is accepting the file as input and converting all the values > in it to text values > > 41 65 72 74 3A 20 49 6E 74 65 72 66 61 63 65 > > the output of the above should be "APRIL FOOL". If you file contains a mixture of hex and plain text, a perl one-liner could do the trick: $ perl -pe 's/[0-9A-Fa-f][0-9A-Fa-f]\s+/chr(hex($&))/ge' input.dat Aert: Interface You might have to change the whitespace part of the RE. Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Fax: +45 33 27 47 08 Email: mk@xxxxxx Homepage: http://www.crc.dk -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
