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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to see special characters? Post 302483710 by mrwolfer1 on Tuesday 28th of December 2010 06:51:00 AM
Old 12-28-2010
cat -v (solaris)

see: man cat
Code:
 -v    Non-printing characters (with the exception  of  tabs,
           new-lines  and  form-feeds) are printed visibly. ASCII
           control characters (octal 000 - 037)  are  printed  as
           ^n,  where  n  is the corresponding ASCII character in
           the range octal 100 - 137 (@, A, B, C, . . ., X, Y, Z,
           [,  \, ], ^, and _); the DEL character (octal 0177) is
           printed ^?. Other non-printable characters are printed
           as  M-x,  where  x is the ASCII character specified by
           the low-order seven bits.

 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

eqnchar

eqnchar(5)						Standards, Environments, and Macros						eqnchar(5)

NAME

       eqnchar - special character definitions for eqn

SYNOPSIS

       eqn  /usr/share/lib/pub/eqnchar filename |  troff options

       neqn  /usr/share/lib/pub/eqnchar filename |  troff options

DESCRIPTION

       The  eqnchar command contains nroff(1) and troff(1) character definitions for constructing characters that are not available on the Graphic
       Systems typesetter. These definitions are primarily intended for use with eqn(1) and neqn(1). It contains definitions  for  the	characters
       listed in the following table.

       To view the special characters, see the online man page on docs.sun.com or a print copy.

FILES

       /usr/share/lib/pub/eqnchar

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5)  for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWdoc			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       eqn(1), nroff(1), troff(1), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.11							    12 Jul 2002 							eqnchar(5)
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