ASCII to char convertion

woody · September 1, 2002, 11:49pm

I am writing the script to encrypt and decrypt content of the text file.

How can I convert ASCII to characters and backward? I need it for Bourne shell script.

Thanks:

hell666 · September 2, 2002, 2:09am

See man pages on 'crypt' command.

oombera · September 2, 2002, 9:55am

I'm not sure what you mean.. could you be a little more precise in explaining what it is you're trying to do?

You want to create your own encryption by converting ASCII characters into something else?

janr · September 2, 2002, 10:07am

Hi

can you explain what you mean with:

"convert ASCII to characters"

When you use dd you can translate from asci to ebcdic or other character sets.

Is this what you want??