Command line calculator with good hex support

Question

Is there a command line calculator that will let me do bit operations and has good support for hex. E.g. for operations like:

0xff << 3
(1 << 5) ^ 0x77

Bad solutions:

• bc - laughable support for hex
• Frink - might work, but it's a big java app and not easily installable through Brew etc.
• radix-calc - close to what I want, but I'd prefer a REPL, with support for variables etc.
• Python - too verbose for printing hex etc.

The software should work on a Mac and ideally be open source. Must support standard C operators, and ideally setting variables and printing them as hex.

Answer 1

PowerShell (PowerShell Core) comes close to what you want. It's a REPL, supports hex, supports variables, supports defining functions. (It's more than a plain calculator, though!)

Shortcomings:

It supports the functionality of bitwise operators, but not with the C symbols - e.g., << is -shl, | is -bor, and so on - see Get-Help about_Arithmetic_Operators for details.

Hex output is awkward and verbose; you'd pretty much have to do it as "{0:X4}"-f (insert calculation here) (4 is the number of hex digits to use; you can use more or less as you choose) - but hex input is standard - 0x followed by hex digits.