spot on. that's why:

printf "%c", 0

works, move on now.


On 18 September 2013 17:24, Florian Limberger
<flo@snakeoilproductions.net>wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:47:17 +0200
> dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > awk(1) says, ``[s]tring constants are quoted " ", with the usual C
> > escapes recognized within.'', but \0 seems to terminate internal
> > string reprezentation...
> >
> > so how do i output a real NUL byte?
>
> I  know this is not very constructive and may seem like a dumb question,
> but isn’t \0 the end marker for C strings?  So this behaviour  might  be
> expected?
>
>
> -flo
>