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Re:ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text by raldi on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @04:55PM (#7476592)
Sure, the default is overridable, and the character has no magic effect when found in a binary file, but there's a reason Ctrl-D was chosen as the standard keystroke sequence to end a stdin transaction, and it has everything to do with the fact that "D" shows up next to "end of transmission" in `man ascii`.
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Re:ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text by thwarted on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @10:57PM (#7478297)
Thank you for clarifying something that no one was disputing or event mentioned.
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Re:ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text by qu4z-2 on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @11:44PM (#7478470)
Yeah, I hate it when people point out interesting things I didn't know before too.
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Re:ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text by thwarted on Thursday March 27, 2014 @03:21AM (#7479046)
I'm sure raldi can repeat, again, making it 3 times, that control-d means end of transmission and that's why it was chosen for signalling end of stdin, on a thread about how to type the control characters.
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