simpliest way to calculate octal?

[Francesco Casadei]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 02:35:35PM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> Hello. Pretty newbie question again:)
> 
> Today I found I cannot calculate what is the octal form of 0xa04e.
> 
> First I thought xcalc should do the work, but it seems only deal with 
> decimal.
> 
> I have perl, tcsh, python interprater. It is likely that they are all 
> capable of this kind, but what are the commands for them? What's the most 
> convenient way?
> 
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You can use 'bc' for this and other conversions:

$ echo 'ibase = 16; obase = 8; A04E' | bc
120116

ibase and obase are the input and output base respectively. Note that you
must use capital letters for exadecimal numbers, lower case letters are
variable names.
See bc(1) manual page for more information.

    Francesco Casadei
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