From OpenIPMI's bmclanconf:
hex_to_ip () { test $# -ge 1 || return; local HEX B1 B2 B3 B4; HEX=`echo $1 | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'`; H1=`echo $HEX | cut -c1-2` H2=`echo $HEX | cut -c3-4` H3=`echo $HEX | cut -c5-6` H4=`echo $HEX | cut -c7-8` B1=`echo 10 o 16 i $H1 p | dc` B2=`echo 10 o 16 i $H2 p | dc` B3=`echo 10 o 16 i $H3 p | dc` B4=`echo 10 o 16 i $H4 p | dc` echo "$B1.$B2.$B3.$B4" }
Not sure if I should be impressed or disgusted. Kinda my reaction when I see anything done in a shell.
I used to complain about TCL, but shell scripts piping things into new programs left and right... is that anywhere near efficient? Or does it come down to just not mattering? I suspect.
IPMI is frickin' awesome, though.