title: How to efficiently convert long int to dotted quad IP in bash
body: <p>I have a lot of IP addresses in a large mysql DB stored as long int's. I need an efficient/quick way to convert them back to an IP within a BASH shell script ( or have mysql return the results as an IP?? ).</p>
  
  <p>Note: specifically don't want to call perl, awk, or other 'language'.</p>