command or script for converting hex values to text

[Mogens Kjaer]

ankush grover wrote:
...
> Important is accepting the file as input and converting all the values
> in it to text values
> 
> 41 65 72 74 3A 20 49 6E 74 65 72 66 61 63 65
> 
> the output of the above should be "APRIL FOOL".

If you file contains a mixture of hex and plain
text, a perl one-liner could do the trick:

$ perl -pe 's/[0-9A-Fa-f][0-9A-Fa-f]\s+/chr(hex($&))/ge' input.dat
Aert: Interface

You might have to change the whitespace part of the RE.

Mogens

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