Encoding Strings to charcode | Bash scripts

asciigen.sh

#!/bin/bash
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  echo "Enter Text"
  exit 1
fi
#Run script as
#./asciigen.sh texthere | awk {'print $6'} | tr "\n" " "
#Usage if you want numbers only
foo=$1
for (( i=0; i<${#foo}; i++ ));
do
  bar=$(echo ${foo:$i:1})
  raw=$(ascii $bar)
  final=$(echo $raw | grep "prints" | awk {'print $5'} | tr -d ',' )
  echo "ASCII value of $bar is $final"
done
#Encoding strings to charcode
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