Line feed Character in UNIX

[tekkid]

Normal text editors have a aski13, what does UNIX recognize? Can't figure this out please help if you can.


Thanks,

Kidd

 

[pcunix]

What's normal?

Unix was here LONG before MSDOS. Unix always has used the LF (line feed) character (ascii 10) for line endings. Microsoft, in their Infinite Wisdom, decided to use that AND ascii 13 (CR or Carriage Return).

So what's the actual question? Most programming languages that run on both platfroms (Perl etc.) handle these differences for you. So do programs like FTp if you use TEXT mode to transfer. Unixes almost always have conversion filters to change text files to and from these formats, most printers can automatically add CR's after LF's and so on.

What is the actual problem you need to solve? Tony Lawrence
SCO Unix/Linux Resources

http://pcunix.com

tony@pcunix.com

 

[mrn]

If your talking scripting then

echo "hello world\n"

\n = newline

or

echo "hello world\c"

\c = no line break

or

echo "hello world\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\c"

\b = backspace

so cursor would appear over h in hello

Hope this is what your after.

Mike --
| Mike Nixon
| Unix Admin
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http://www.instantflashshop.com

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