Create Binary files in UNIX

Question

This question was out there for a while and I thought I should offer some bonus points if I can get it to work.

What did I do…

Recently at work, I wrote a par

Answer 1

awk is the wrong tool for the job here, but there are a thousand ways to do it. The easiest way is often a small C program, or any other language that explicitely makes a distinction between a character and a string of decimal digits.

However, to do it in awk, use the "%c" printf format.