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I am using this character as a delimiter 'þ'
Currently, I set it straight:
DELIMITER='þ'

However, while copying the file, this character often gets mangled. Is there a bash way (perhaps using tr or printf) of generating this character.

It corresponds to

"chr(0xfe)" if using perl. (I've got it from the CRUSH tutorial
on CrushTutorial - crush-tools - A quick introduction to using CRUSH for data processing - Project Hosting on Google Code )

I essentially want to be able to say:

DELIMITER=$( printf "%x" 0xfe)

or $( echo 'x' | tr 'x' \xfe' )

or $( jot -c 1 0xfe )

All these give me junk characters.

Conversely, given some symbol can i gets its hex value in bash for future use.

If I do : jot 1 'þ'
I get -66.

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I've found something, but is this the best way:

Code:

echo -n þ | hexdump

0000000 c3 be
0000002

Code:

echo -e "\xC3\xBE\x02"

þ

This is the small letter thorn. With bash you can use:

Code:

$'\xFE'

For example:

Code:

bash-3.2.49(23)[~]$ echo $'\xFE'
þ

you can also generate that byte, 0xFE, with printf(1) :

Code:

printf '\376'

Why do the last 2 print junk on my terminal.

Code:

 $ echo -e "\xC3\xBE\x02"
þ
 $ echo -e $'\xFE'
�
 $ printf '\376'
�

I'm on: GNU bash, version 4.0.35(1)-release (powerpc-apple-darwin9.8.0)

Code:

set | grep LC

LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
local LC_CTYPE=C;

Sorry, I don't have access to a Mac so I cannot test.
With your code I get this on my terminal:

Code:

$ echo $'\xC3\xBE\02'
þ
$ echo $'\xC3\xBE'
þ
$ echo $'\xC3'
Ã
$ echo $'\xBE'
¾

And the codes seam to correspond to what I see (see the extended ascii table).

Did you check on another terminal or computer?

Hello ,
You should config your terminal to ISO-8859-1 encoding .
In UTF-8 encoding you will need to use : echo -e "\xC3\xBE"


U+00FE LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN
General Character Properties
In Unicode since: 1.1
Unicode category: Letter, Lowercase
Various Useful Representations
UTF-8: 0xC3 0xBE
UTF-16: 0x00FE
C octal escaped UTF-8: \303\276
XML decimal entity: þ
Annotations and Cross References
Notes:
• Icelandic, Old English, phonetics
• Runic letter borrowed into Latin script

Sure, thanks.
The OP uses the UTF-8 representation.