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Re: [Help-bash] How to assign special characters like $'\002' to a varia
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Quentin L'Hours |
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Re: [Help-bash] How to assign special characters like $'\002' to a variable? |
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Tue, 5 Feb 2019 17:41:26 -0800 |
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On 2019-02-05 05:33 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> I am not able to assign special characters like $'\002' to a variable.
> Why is it so? Is there any walk-around? Thanks.
It's there, it's just not printable:
$ declare -p x
declare -- x=""
$ declare -p x | cat -v
declare -- x="^B"
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Quentin