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Mythryl >

possibly taken from the mailing list, though I have no reference so this might be from a private email

To display a character, you can specify its ASCII value with \nnn. e.g.:

• \n or \010 – newline
• \t or \009 – tab
• \r or \013 – carriage return
• \a or \007 – alert
• \b or \008 – backspace
• \f or \012 – formfeed

• \v or \011 – vertical tab

(Digraphs and trigraphs)

printf "\070";
# =>
# F