term% cat index.txt ASCII(1) General Commands Manual ASCII(1)
NAME
ascii - interpret ASCII characters
SYNOPSIS
ascii [ -oxd | -bn ] [ -nct ] [ -e ] [ text ]
DESCRIPTION
Ascii prints the ASCII values corresponding to characters and vice
versa. The values are interpreted in a settable numeric base; -o spec‐
ifies octal (the default), -d decimal, -x hexadecimal, and -bn base n .
With no arguments, ascii reproduces /usr/pub/ascii in the specified
base. Any given characters of text are converted to their ASCII val‐
ues, one per line. If, however, the first argument of text is a valid
number in the specified base, it is printed as plain text (control
characters are printed as they appear in /usr/pub/ascii). The option
-n forces the output to numeric form and -c forces the output to print‐
able characters. The option -t converts, without interpretation, from
numbers to text. Finally, -e forces the following arguments to be in‐
terpreted as text .
EXAMPLES
ascii -d
Print the ASCII table base 10.
ascii p
Print the octal value of ‘p'.
ascii 160
Show which character is octal 160.
SEE ALSO
ascii(7)
ASCII(1)