2/17    This *has* to exist: I'm working w/ a text file that uses ascii #2
        for record separators and ascii #1 for field separators.  Is there
        a utility that will print out these ascii values for me, so I can
        (for example) use them with command line awk and perl scripts? Ex:
        fs=`atoi 1`
        perl -pi e's/(.*)$fs(.*)/$1$fsfoobar/g' myfile.txt
        Also, what would the actual perl syntax be for what I'm trying to
        do with the above command?  Platform is OS X.  TIA
        \_ perl -002 -a -F'\001' -lpi -e '$_="$F[0]foobar"' myfile.txt
           OK, this sets in the input record separator to #2 (instead of
           newline), sets the field separator to #1, strips the \002 from the
           input and readds it on output (-l) and autosplits into @F on \1
           --dbushong
           \_ What about a function that just prints an ascii code -
                printf("%c", atoi(argv[0]));
              would be fine, it just seems ridiculous that this doesn't
              already exist.
              \_ In most shells, you can press ^V before a keystroke and have
                 that keystroke inserted literally, without being interpreted
                 by the shell. Thus, ^V^A would produce a literal ^A (ASCII
                 code 0x01), and ^V^B would produce a literal ^B (ASCII 0x02).
                 Alternatively, try fs=`echo -ne '\001'`. -gm
                 \_ Ah, that works very well, thank you.  I also
                    discovered the perl function chr, which takes an int
                    and returns the associated ascii character.
              \_ I think you meant argv[1], there, buddy.  Anyway, it's
                 trivial, so why don't you write it?
                 \_ You're correct, and yes it's trivial, but so is the
                    command "yes" which repeatedly prints out "y" forever.
                    The thing is, I need to have other people run this
                    script for me, and I don't want to waste their time
                    with "ok, now run gcc -o asciify asciify.c" if asciify
                    already exists.