Ultimately my goal is to convert a hexdump of data to the correct floating point value. I have set up my shell script to isolate the individual hex values I need to look at and arrange them in the correct order for a little Endian float conversion.
To simplify everything, I'll bypass the code I have managed to get working, and I'll start with:
rawHex=0x41000000
echo $(perl -e 'print unpack "f", pack "L", $ENV{rawHex}')
When I execute this code, the …