From: arnold@skeeve.com (arnold@skeeve.com)
Subject: [TUHS] Literal character escapes in v7
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 21:34:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201711070434.vA74YlrN020951@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b72ba3f2-5f38-6194-4925-b3b9e0caf4b9@gmail.com>
Will Senn <will.senn at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not looking for code review, but the code is intended to replace the
> tabs and backspaces with \t and \b respectively, but I haven't been able
> to test it because I can't seem to make a backspace character appear in
> input. In later unices, ^V followed by the backspace would work, but
> that's not part of v7. Backspace itself is my erase character, so
> anytime I just type it, it backspaces :).
awk 'BEGIN { print "a\bc\td" ; exit }' | your-program
Enjoy,
Arnold
P.S. The exit is needed for V7 awk, IIRC, not modern ones.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-07 4:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-07 4:21 Will Senn
2017-11-07 4:34 ` arnold [this message]
2017-11-07 4:49 ` Will Senn
2017-11-07 5:00 ` Will Senn
2017-11-07 8:08 ` arnold
2017-11-07 9:07 ` Dennis Boone
2017-11-07 13:55 ` Will Senn
2017-11-07 11:21 ` Dan Cross
2017-11-07 14:59 ` Will Senn
2017-11-07 15:33 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-08 16:48 ` Ralph Corderoy
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