On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 09:33:11 +0200 Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> > From: [email protected]
> >
> > $ print $(( '_' )) $(( ':' ))
> > 95 58
> I wasn't aware that we can get the ordinal numbers of characters that way.
> Thanks!
> In cases where I am looking for the other way round, getting the character
> from its ordinal number, I intuitively always first try (though to no avail)
> printf "%c%c\n" 95 58
> As a workaround I still resort to
> $( echo 95P | dc )
> $( echo 58P | dc )
> Is there a simple *builtin* way for the other way round, get the character
> from its ordinal number? I seem to recall there was, but don't remember.
> BTW, does anybody know why a printf conversion doesn't work as one would
> expect?
posix defined %c to take the first char of the corresponding operand -- not
very useful
this works, but I bet dgk has a better way
printf '\x'$(printf %02x 65)'\n'
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