Generating Octal/Hex Codes from Bourne Shell

[Chris Torek]

>In article <1054 at marconi.SW.MCC.COM> knutson at marconi.sw.mcc.com.UUCP
>(Jim Knutson) writes:
>>		echo . | tr . '\007'	# 0x07

In article <2848 at quacky.mips.COM> dce at mips.COM (David Elliott) writes:
>This is a very useful trick.

Aye.

>One thing it doesn't handle is generating a NUL.  I've tried all
>kinds of things, but have never found a way to generate a NUL
>character from a shell script.

Use the `printf' command:

	$ printf %c \\0

Surely you have a printf command?!?

[The source and manual entry has just been submitted to comp.sources.unix,
in the year, hmm...
	$ printf %r\\n 1988
mcmlxxxviii]

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