How to add a carriage return as a character to a file?

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I wanna have a string like:

blablbabla<carriage return goes here>

I mean the string should contain the carriage return. Is there any simple way to do it? Or if a write a program in c and use fputs with blablabla\r, does this do the trick?

Alexander Pogrebnyak · Answer 1 · 2011-10-12T16:32:06.250

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echo -ne "blablbabla\r" > /path/to/your/file

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answered Oct 12 '11 at 15:57

Alexander Pogrebnyak

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@wonnie. You are right, requires -e switch. Updated the answer. – Alexander Pogrebnyak Oct 12 '11 at 16:32

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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If you're using vim you can enter insert mode and type 'CTRL-v CTRL-m'. That ^M is the keyboard equivalent to \r. (see Insert the carriage return character in vim)

Inserting 0x0D in a hex editor will do the task.

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answered Oct 12 '11 at 15:22

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 12 '11 at 16:21

SHELLVAR=$(echo -ne "blablabla\r")

See the echo man page — the -e option causes echo to interpret backslash escapes.

Also, at least in bash's normal edit mode, the same control-v control-m sequence works to insert a carriage return character literally; it will show as ^M

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