Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 19:17:25 +0100 From: Peter McGarvey <Peter.McGarvey@telinco.net> To: eric.boucher24@sympatico.ca Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Question about ls -b Message-ID: <39661EB5.257D7CD0@telinco.net> References: <396603F5.577B50B2@sympatico.ca>
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Boucher Eric wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to know something about the command : ls -b
>
> It is suppose to show the non printable character in the form /ddd
> in hexadecimal.
My man page says:
-b As -B, but use C escape codes whenever possible.
and
-B Force printing of non-graphic characters in file names as
\xxx,
where xxx is the numeric value of the character in octal.
>
> But doesn't seem to put the exact value by converting the hexadecimal
> number to the
So it's not hex, it's octal
>
> ASCII code. For example, if a name of one of my file contains the ASCII
> character 130, when I type the ls -b command, the output show me :
> /202 , which is the number 516, not 130 (maybe it's not the exact
> number, but it's close to it, I do it by memory, it's only to show that
> it's not the correct number.)
>
130 -> 82 in hex -> 202 in octal
so it appears to be working fine....
I would say RTFM, but I won't as I don't want to start a flame war ;-)
--
TTFN, FNORD
Peter McGarvey, Unix Administrator
Network Operations Center, Telinco Limited
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