Convert decimal to hexadecimal in UNIX shell script

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Published on 2008-12-18T19:00:50Z Indexed on 2010/03/12 14:27 UTC
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In a UNIX shell script, what can I use to convert decimal numbers into hexadecimal? I thought od would do the trick, but it's not realizing I'm feeding it ASCII representations of numbers.

printf? Gross! Using it for now, but what else is available? :)

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