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From: ralph@inputplus.co.uk (Ralph Corderoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Literal character escapes in v7
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 16:48:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171108164822.7ABDB20334@orac.inputplus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b72ba3f2-5f38-6194-4925-b3b9e0caf4b9@gmail.com>

Hi Will,

> I can't seem to make a backspace character

dc(1) is handy for unhexdump.

    $ echo 16i4108666F6F0AP | dc | sed -n l
    A\bfoo$
    $

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.
https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy


      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-08 16:48 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
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 [this message]

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