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While assisting a forum member, I recommended running SQL/Plus in a coprocess (to make database connections and run a test script) for the duration of his script rather than starting/stopping it once...

replace echo by printf
Sample for you.
printf "%s \002 %s \002" ${name} ${age}

name="Adam Smith"
age=40

printf "%s\002%s" "${name}" "${age}" > outfile
xxd -a outfile

Or:

awk -F^B '{print $2}' infile
Where ^B is entered as CTRL-V CTRL-B

In bash/ksh93 you can do this:
awk -F$'\002' '{print $2}' infile
Note: \002 is octal

My bad, looks like some versions of awk don't support the 0x02 format, try 2 instead:

$ awk 'BEGIN {FS=sprintf("%c", 2)} {print $2}' sample

By the way od -c is nice to debug this sort of...