Hello, World! in Unix shell

Example for versions Bash 4.0.35

This example uses dc (Desktop Calculator), which is a popular non-standard tool that allows processing arbitrary-precision numbers. | dc means that dc has to be applied to the command.

P command (the last character before | dc) outputs the last element of the stack. The huge number before P when written in hexadecimal looks as 0x48656C6C6F2C20576F726C64210A; pairs of adjacent digits form ASCII-codes of characters of “Hello, World!”: 0x48 = H, 0x65 = e, 0x6c = l etc. Thus, when printed, this number is processed as a string. 

echo 1468369091346906859060166438166794P | dc