In message <Pine.NEB.4.33.0112181743180.17681-100000@chylonia.3miasto.net>, Woj
ciech Puchar writes:
>
>how to generate BINARY file without executing ANY external commands from
>within /bin/ksh?
>
>i accidentally corrupted ld.elf_so , have everything dynamic, and only one
>thing i left with is ssh session with ksh and i'm able to do cut&paste
>with mouse
>
>
>cat echo be used to emit any binary sequences???
>
>please help!
>
>

Yes, I believe you can:

b154$ echo -n '\0\01\0177\0200\0377' | od -c
0000000   \0 001 177 200 377 

Note that you *must* have the leading 0 after the \.

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