base-convert-cli 1.0.0

A CLI tool that converts numbers between bases.

Description

A CLI tool to convert numbers between bases, with as little typing as possible.

$ bs FFFE
[from hexadecimal]
  decimal     65534
  binary      1111111111111110
  octal       177776
$ bs -t d F
15

Installation

This is a Python 3 script, installed from PyPI using pip.

pip3 install baseconvertcli

Hasn't been tested on Windows.

Examples

If you don't specify a base, it does all common conversions.

$ bs 0
[from decimal]
  binary      0
  hexadecimal 0
  octal       0

[from binary]
<clipped output here>

Specifying base through a flag.

$ bs --from hex F
[from hexadecimal]
  decimal     15
  binary      1111
  octal       17

From base-6.

$ bs --from 6 54
[from base-6]
  decimal     34
  binary      100010
  hexadecimal 22
  octal       42

To base-7.

$ bs --to 7 54
[from decimal]
  base-7 105

[from hexadecimal]
  base-7 150

[from octal]
  base-7 62

Specifying both input and output bases.

$ bs --from hex --to dec F
15

Shorthand for lazy people.

$ bs -f h -t d F
15

Aaaaand input through a pipe.

$ echo '5+10' | bc | bs -t h
[from decimal]
  hexadecimal F

[from octal]
  hexadecimal D

Contributing

Feel free to submit tweaks. To run tests, install tox via pip3 install tox and then run the tox command from the base directory.