[ILUG] sed question

[P at draigBrady.com]

Ciaran Mac Lochlainn wrote:
> First of all, I'm not sure if sed is even the right tool for this job, 
> but here goes-
> 
> I need to send a stream of output from a .net app on a windows box (or 
> boxen) to a serial port on a Linux machine.  Each line has to contain a 
> preamble which includes unprintable characters.  The .net app writes 
> these in Unicode (e.g. \340 is written as \303\240) which the hardware 
> device on the serial port can't interpret.
> 
> I thought of using a sed script on the Linux box to add the preambles 
> instead, but I don't know how to get it to echo unprintable characters.  
> I can get it to add text so long as it's in 7 bits.

When editing the sed script in vim,
hit Ctrl-V 027 to insert that char.

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