[prog] bash, reading and displaying hex

[Conor Daly]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 07:21:46PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Hamster thought:
> 
> offset=`dd if=/dev/cdrom skip=33597 count=1`
> printf 'The GMT offset is 0x%02X' $offset

What happens if you set offset manually to be 0x08 and then print it?  Can
you combine the commands and does that help? ie.

printf 'The GMT offset is 0x%02X' `dd if=/dev/cdrom skip=33597 count=1`

Conor (guessing...)
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