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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Processing extended ascii character file names in UNIX (BASH scipts) Post 302167635 by robotronic on Friday 15th of February 2008 04:44:29 AM
Old 02-15-2008
You have to insert a backslash followed by zero before the octal code number (\0n):

Code:
"filf\0148rval"

You can try an echo command to see if the output is really what you want:

Code:
echo -e "filf\0148rval"

You need to be sure of the octal code you use. For that character, isn't "\0366" the correct code?

Try and see Smilie

Last edited by robotronic; 02-15-2008 at 08:26 AM..
 

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Term::Size::Perl - Perl extension for retrieving terminal size (Perl version) SYNOPSIS
use Term::Size::Perl; ($columns, $rows) = Term::Size::Perl::chars *STDOUT{IO}; ($x, $y) = Term::Size::Perl::pixels; DESCRIPTION
Yet another implementation of "Term::Size". Now in pure Perl, with the exception of a C probe run on build time. FUNCTIONS chars ($columns, $rows) = chars($h); $columns = chars($h); "chars" returns the terminal size in units of characters corresponding to the given filehandle $h. If the argument is omitted, *STDIN{IO} is used. In scalar context, it returns the terminal width. pixels ($x, $y) = pixels($h); $x = pixels($h); "pixels" returns the terminal size in units of pixels corresponding to the given filehandle $h. If the argument is omitted, *STDIN{IO} is used. In scalar context, it returns the terminal width. Many systems with character-only terminals will return "(0, 0)". SEE ALSO
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