Shell Programming and Scripting

 
name="Adam Smith"
age=40
address="1 main st"
city="New York"
echo ${name}"\002"${age}"\002"${address}"\002"${city} > mytmp

 
Adam Smith^T0^Q main st^BNew York

printf "%s \002 %s \002" ${name} ${age}

name="Adam Smith"
age=40

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

name="Adam Smith"
age=40
address="1 main st"
city="New York"
delimiter=`echo "\0002\c"`
echo "${name}${delimiter}${age}${delimiter}${address}${delimiter}${city}" > mytmp