[H-GEN] Conversion of Integer to Binary

[Anthony Towns]

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On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Cameron Reeves wrote:
> There is probably a really easy answer to this, but is there an escape
> sequence that exists that allows an integer value to be printed out in
> binary? I am thinking along the lines of the octal and hex sequences. Is
> there one that exists, or do I have to manually write the code for it?

] [aj at azure ~]$ cat tobin.sh
] #!/bin/sh
] for n in $@; do
]  printf "%o\n" $n | sed "s/0/000/g;s/1/001/g;s/2/010/g;s/3/011/g" |
]  sed "s/4/100/g;s/5/101/g;s/6/110/g;s/7/111/g" | sed "s/^0*/0/g;s/^01/1/g"
] done
] [aj at azure ~]$ ./tobin.sh -1 0 1 2 3 4 5
] 11111111111111111111111111111111
] 0
] 1
] 10
] 11
] 100
] 101
] [aj at azure ~]$ _

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
aj (and yes, there probably _is_ an easy solution)

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