title: A large hex to binary conversion in bc
body: <p>I'm trying to convert a 32 character long hex string (eg: <code>A41EB86E184207262C12F66E7C480577</code>) to binary. I'm using:</p>
  
  <pre><code>echo "ibase=16; obase=2; $line" | bc
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but its including an unnecessary <code>\</code> in-between which is not letting me perform any bit operations on the result.</p>
  
  <p>An example output that I got is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>10100100000111101011100001101110000110000100001000000111001001100010\
  110000010010111101100110111001111100010010000000010101110111
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Notice the <code>\</code> in the end of the first line.</p>
  
  <p>What can I do to avoid it?</p>