Fred Snurd writes: > I have been looking at sed to insert non-printable characters into text > files. The sed(1) manpage states that I should be able to insert' > octal values by preceding the three character octal value with a backslash.
The only place the word "octal" shows up in the sed man page is in the description of the OUTPUT of the [2addr]l command. It is not described as a meaningful input for the [2addr]s/re/replacement/flags command. // marc
