note PrakashK <i> <code> map {printf"%3d %2x %2s|",$_,$_,$_<32?'^'.chr$_+64:$_<127?chr$_:'^?'} (0..127); </code> </i> <p>Cool (and useful) one-liner, replacing <code>man ascii</code>!</p> <p>I added it to my <code>~/.bash/functions</code>, with a few changes replace the quote chracters so it would be acceptable to bash. Also, added a newline for every 8 characters.</p> <code> function ascii { perl -e ' map { printf q{%3d %2X %2s|%s}, $_, $_, $_<32 ? q{^}.chr($_+64) : $_<127 ? chr : q{^?}, ($_+1)%8 ? q{} : $/ } 0..127 ' } </code> <p>/prakash</p> <p>PS: I tried making it a bash alias, but it was too much trouble working around all those quotes to prevent bash interpolating $_ etc!</p> 499630 499646