On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 05:28:02PM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 02:29:01PM +0000, Andreas Kahari wrote:
> > Using decimal->octal conversion, and then getting the
> > corresponding character...
> > 
> >     i=65; printf "\\$(printf "%o" $i)"
> 
> Printf twice! Foolishly I kept trying to it in one.. (CHR$ in BBC Basic ;) )

i=65;printf '\'$(($i/64))$(($i/8%8))$(($i%8))

	David

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