Meaning of control character | Babel Free

Definitions

A character which does not have a direct visual appearance as a glyph, but rather causes some other action to occur, such as a transition to a new line.

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“The tab, carriage return, and line feed are all control characters.”

“To display raw control characters in text, but try to keep the screen appearance, use less with the -R option. This displays raw control characters, but any disparities that may be caused by the control characters on the screen are controlled, whenever possible.”

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