^M

[Brad De Vries]

--- Ted Ozolins <ted at telus.net> wrote:
> James McDonald wrote:
> 
> > Ted Ozolins wrote:
> >
> >> During my days working with cp/m I use to use in
> scripts ^M to obtain 
> >> the action of <Enter>. How or what can be used in
> bash (as in 
> >> rc.local) to get the same action?
> >> TIA
> >
> >
> > Isn't it just a matter of doing a an echo -e \xxx
> where xxx is the 
> > octal value of the ascii code? Although I couldn't
> figure out the code 
> > for ^M by looking at the "man ascii" page... if
> someone knows I'm 
> > curious now aswell.
> 
> The only value I can get are the keycodes (28 and
> 96) 28 being in the 
> qwerty section and 98 by the numeric keypad. I use
> to have an old cpm-80 
> book that listed all those goodies but no longer am
> sure where it is<G>
> 
> Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO)
> Westbank, B.C.

Using the good ol' "od" command, I found that ^M
(Carriage Return) is:
decimal: 13
octal: 015
hex: 0xD

HTH.
Brad.

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