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Old 08-25-2004
Java running an Acii charater in a script.
Hi,
I need to pass a space bar or an enter key in a script for it to return control to my script. How do I do this.

For example the spacebar ascii value is 127, how do I tell the script to run this command.
# 2  
Old 08-25-2004
Your question does not make any sense. But in ksh,

echo " "
will output a space followed by a newline.

echo
will output a newline.

echo " \c"
will output a space without a newline.
# 3  
Old 08-25-2004
The problem is quite simple really - I have a script that does someting in the background (runs another script) but this other task it performs does not pass control back to the first task. So all I want to do is initiat a ascii character (similar to a bell sound) like and enter key to it and it will close the other tasks window and return control back here.
# 4  
Old 08-25-2004
Im not really sure either what it is you are asking for. You can however use 'echo' to output the ascii equivalent of an 8bit octal. See man echo for more.

Example:

echo -e "\nnn" where nnn is the ASCII code character


echo -e "\040" should output a space
echo -e "\007" should sound a bell
# 5  
Old 08-25-2004
exactly what I want. Many thanks.
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