Quickly Use BC to Convert Hex to Dec


This post is mainly for my own benefit because I’ll forget this if I don’t put it down somewhere. A lot of the times I need to convert hex to dec when I’m on the command line and it’s a pain to open up the calculator so here is the command line equivalent

echo "ibase=16; FFFF" | bc

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