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Linux / UNIX: Convert Hexadecimal to Decimal Number

last updated November 23, 2010 in BASH Shell, CentOS, Debian / Ubuntu, Fedora Linux, FreeBSD, Korn Shell Scripting, KSH Shell, Linux, Mac OS X, Programming, RedHat and Friends, Solaris-Unix, Suse, Ubuntu Linux, UNIX

How do I convert hex number to decimal number using a shell script under UNIX / Linux operating systems?

Pass Command Line Arguments To a Bash Alias Command

last updated April 7, 2012 in BASH Shell, Linux, UNIX

How do I pass all command line args to my bash alias called foo. For example:

alias foo=”/path/to/command $@”

However $@ get interpreted when creating the alias instead of during the execution of the alias and escaping the $ doesn’t work either. How do I solve this problem?
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