Newsgroups: comp.security.unix
> Do you know whether the ascii table can be look up in man pages? thanks
try 'man ascii'.
Ulf
Or you could use 'awk' to produce a (printable) character map of some description;
awk 'BEGIN{print "char octal hex decimal" for(i=32;i<127;++i)printf "%c \\%03o %02x %3d\n",i,i,i,i exit}'
