Is it possible to use cut and have unprintable characters be the delimiter? For example I’d like to have the ‘^A’ characters (also represented as \001) be the delimiter.
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Is it possible to use cut and have unprintable characters be the delimiter? For example I’d like to have the ‘^A’ characters (also represented as \001) be the delimiter.
If you’re using Bash,
works (see Bash Reference Manual # 3.1.2.4 ANSI-C Quoting).
Other (more portable) options,
or inserting the control character directly using ^V as mentioned by Alnitak and etlerant — on the shell command line, and in editors such as vi, this means ‘don’t treat the next thing I type specially’.