Subject: Re: echo weirdness
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 02/19/2004 17:28:02 
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 02:29:01PM +0000, Andreas Kahari wrote:
> Using decimal->octal conversion, and then getting the
> corresponding character...
> 
>     i=65; printf "\\$(printf "%o" $i)"

Printf twice! Foolishly I kept trying to it in one.. (CHR$ in BBC Basic ;) )

Thanks!

Patrick