• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer navigation

The Geek Diary

  • OS
    • Linux
    • CentOS/RHEL
    • VCS
  • Interview Questions
  • Database
    • MariaDB
  • DevOps
    • Docker
    • Shell Scripting
  • Big Data
    • Hadoop
    • Cloudera
    • Hortonworks HDP

ascii: command not found

by admin

ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It is a character encoding standard that represents characters as integers. ASCII codes are used to represent text in computers, communication equipment, and other devices that work with text.

In Linux, the ascii command is used to display or convert ASCII values for characters. It can be used to display the ASCII value for a character, or to display the character for a given ASCII value.

Here is an example of using the ascii command to display the ASCII value for the character “A”:

# ascii A
65

And here is an example of using the ascii command to display the character for the ASCII value 65:

# ascii 65
A

If you encounter the below error while running the ascii command:

ascii: command not found

you may try installing the below package as per your choice of distribution:

OS Distribution Command
OS X brew install ascii
Debian apt-get install ascii
Ubuntu apt-get install ascii
Arch Linux pacman -S ascii
Kali Linux apt-get install ascii
Fedora dnf install ascii
Raspbian apt-get install ascii

ascii Command Examples

1. Show ASCII aliases of a character:

# ascii a

2. Show ASCII aliases in short, script-friendly mode:

# ascii -t a

3. Show ASCII aliases of multiple characters:

# ascii -s tldr

4. Show ASCII table in decimal:

# ascii -d

5. Show ASCII table in hexadecimal:

# ascii -x

6. Show ASCII table in octal:

# ascii -o

7. Show ASCII table in binary:

# ascii -b

8. Show options summary and complete ASCII table:

# ascii

Filed Under: Linux

Some more articles you might also be interested in …

  1. mcopy Command in Linux
  2. paste Command Examples in Linux
  3. iotop Command Examples
  4. CentOS / RHEL : Move a Physical Volume from an existing Volume Group to another Volume Group
  5. ccomps: Decompose graphs into their connected components
  6. UNIX / Linux : How to change the niceness (priority) of a process
  7. Medusa Command Examples in Linux
  8. Ngrok how to share localhost to world
  9. duperemove: command not found
  10. “go doc” Command Examples

You May Also Like

Primary Sidebar

Recent Posts

  • Vanilla OS 2 Released: A New Era for Linux Enthusiasts
  • mk Command Examples
  • mixxx Command Examples
  • mix Command Examples

© 2025 · The Geek Diary

  • Archives
  • Contact Us
  • Copyright