Antonio Macchi <antonio_mac...@alice.it> writes: >> $ printf "\x00\n" | cat -A >> ^@ > > it works, so why... > > $ printf $'\x00' | cat -A > $ > > ... not?
The answer is in the part you neglected to read. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."