The Wanderer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The Wanderer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Note also that this may not be possible in some shells >>> (specifically, so far as I've been able to discover, bash), >> Of course it works in bash. You can enter every character literally >> with C-v. > > I've never used Ctrl-V to paste in Linux except in Mozilla, and frankly, > I don't think I'd have expected it to work outside of things like > OpenOffice and so forth (i.e., graphical applications, mostly > Windows-alikes). I've always used "highlight and middle-click", > particularly in xterms, and that very definitely does not allow the > literal entry of tabs into bash. > > Actually, I just tested - entered a tab in this mail, copied it with > Ctrl-C, attempted to paste it into an xterm with Ctrl-V. No result. > > If you can shed light on a way to accomplish it which *does* work in my > environment, I'd be pleased to know it.
At the command line, type the following (where C-v means Ctrl-v): $ echo 'C-vTAB'|od -c it'll display like this: $ echo ' '|od -c Here's the output I get: 0000000 \t \n 0000002 _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
