Monday, 20 May 2013

How to convert ASCII character to integer in bash?

How to convert ASCII character to integer in bash?

I'm parsing an ntpq output to pass its contents to our database via console utility. The first element is a one character substring containing status of the remote. It can be "*", "+", "o", "#" etc. I'd better put it to the DB as a number, so it can be easily held by stored procedures, but I have no idea, how to convert a character into it's ASCII representation in bash.

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