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Then you couldn't type it in a text editor.
by edflsafoiewq 6y ago
Then you couldn't type it in a text editor.
- u801e 6y agoI guess it depends on a text editor. Mapping a key to insert that character is one possible solution.
- jeffbee 6y agoStandard unix-style input accepts ctrl-^ as ASCII RS and ctrl-_ as ASCII US. If you want your terminal to accept an ASCII US literally — so that you can use it as the -t argument to sort, for example — you would use ctrl-v ctrl-_ to give it the literal character. $ hd ^^^_ 00000000 1e 1f 0a 00000003 $ sort -t "^_" -k 2,2n a^_42 z^_5 n^_7 z 5 n 7 a 42