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I would like to make a BASH script with which I can decode an encoded text when I have the key character table.
For instance:
I have a file with this encoded text: 8D90908B
I have the following decoding:
8D=r
90=o
8B=t
As you can see the result after the decoding must be the word "root".
My idea is to automate this process with a BASH script which can decode the encoded file.
Unfortunately the only way I see how can I do it is with "sed 's/8D/r/g; s/90/o/g; s/8B/t/g'" which is still convenient for files like the above one.
I want to make it possible to decode the full English alphabet with small and upper case letters and numbers as well, which means 26 small case letters, 26 upper case letters and 10 numbers - general 62 characters. It is quite inconvenient to type something like s/8D/r/g for all these 62 characters, that's why I need a more clever solution.

Thank you in advance for the assistance.

i personally would run through the string and take little 2 character bites out of it and run it against a case statement, then add the result to the new string...
that's just a rundown of how i would approach it... i'm sure you could write a nice little function to handle that

Hi,

Note that your sed option is not going to work as you expect...

inputstream=B8D593

then your first sed would replace like so...

Br593

i strongly suspect that you are going to have to split the input into 2 byte chunks and check against each.
If the 2byte codes are in order then the code can be made short.

A0...BA matches to a...z

sorry but I don't have time to code this right now.