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Date:      Tue, 8 Feb 2005 06:15:50 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@hellug.gr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Another grep question
Message-ID:  <20050208041550.GC23720@igloo.linux.gr>
In-Reply-To: <1913197329.20050208034914@wanadoo.fr>
References:  <1667502496.20050208025619@wanadoo.fr> <200502071802.19719.reso3w83@verizon.net> <1913197329.20050208034914@wanadoo.fr>

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On 2005-02-08 03:49, Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> I'm looking for the hex character 93, which is an opening double
> quotation mark in the Windows character set, not the literal string
> "\0x93".  Unless I'm mistaken, \0x93 in a regular expression means
> "the character whose hex value is 93."

Not really.  Unless you have a shell that understands this sort of
thing and expands the command line arguments to arbitrary 8-bit
characters.

Otherwise, "\0x93" means:

	A literal (escaped with '\') '0' character,
	followed by 'x', then
	followed by '9' and '3'.



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