sort with tab field separator
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sun Mar 23 13:40:55 UTC 2008
On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 14:21 +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 23:49 +0000, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
> > How do I know Ctrl-V + Ctrl-I is \t?
>
> You can look up the old ASCII charts for the control codes.
>
> Key sequence Hex Character / escape sequence / description
> ------------+-----+-------------------------
> CTRL+G 07 BEL ’\a’ (bell)
> CTRL+H 08 BS ’\b’ (backspace)
> CTRL+I 09 HT ’\t’ (horizontal tab)
> CTRL+J 0A LF ’\n’ (new line)
> CTRL+K 0B VT ’\v’ (vertical tab)
> CTRL+L 0C FF ’\f’ (form feed)
> CTRL+M 0D CR ’\r’ (carriage ret)
>
> Hint: Read across both columns in the "man ascii" output.
>
> --
> (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's
> important to the thread.)
>
> Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.
> I read messages from the pa characterublic lists.
>
That is only half of the answer. Ctrl-V forces the system to ignore the
action of the CTRL character that follows it and treat it as just
a character.
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