Re: putting escape characters in files

[Robin Houston]

On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 04:35:29PM +0100, Struan Donald wrote:
> kind of off topic but how do you get things like ^M and such like into
> a file for, say, writing vi macros?

perl -e 'print "\cM"' >> my-file

>;-)
 .robin.


ps. Dominic's already given a proper answer...

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