From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Woods Subject: Re: View hidden characters in a textfile Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:03:42 -0600 Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.0.20050628230158.02d18b48@no.incoming.mail> References: <1492.196.40.85.4.1119901509.squirrel@www.crearium.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1492.196.40.85.4.1119901509.squirrel@www.crearium.com> References: <1492.196.40.85.4.1119901509.squirrel@www.crearium.com> Sender: linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: fabio@crearium.com Cc: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org At 6/27/2005 12:45 -0700, fabio@crearium.com wrote: >Anyone know a tool (or c code) that allow a programmer to see hidden >characters like "\n" or "\t" or "\r\n" ? > >The command cat, tr or sed can help manipulate this character to >make them visible but I wonder if there is a tool like a hex editor >or something that detailed show each character that a file contain. less -- AKA: the opposite of more -- Jeff Woods