Conversion hex string into ascii in bash command line

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Kerby82 picture Kerby82 · Oct 31, 2012 · Viewed 180.5k times · Source

I have a lot of this kind of string and I want to find a command to convert it in ascii, I tried with echo -e and od, but it did not work.

0xA7.0x9B.0x46.0x8D.0x1E.0x52.0xA7.0x9B.0x7B.0x31.0xD2

Answer

funroll picture funroll · May 6, 2015

This worked for me.

$ echo 54657374696e672031203220330 | xxd -r -p
Testing 1 2 3$

-r tells it to convert hex to ascii as opposed to its normal mode of doing the opposite

-p tells it to use a plain format.

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