THE UNIX ACRONYM LIST

ASCII Characters

The official documentation of the ASCII control characters is US Standard X3.4 of 1968. For some nice ASCII charts see the Links page.

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AcronymMeaning
ACK acknowledge
ASCII American standard code for information interchange
BEL bell
BS backspace
CAN cancel
CR carriage return
DC1 device control 1 (also: DC2, DC3, DC4)
DEL delete
DLE data link escape
EM end of medium
ENQ enquiry
EOT end of transmission
ESC escape
ETB end of transmission block
ETX end of text
FF form feed
FS file separator
GS group separator
HT horizontal tabulator
LF line feed
NAK negative acknowledge
NL new line
NUL null
RS record separator
SI shift in
SO shift out
SOH start of header
SPC space
STX start of text
SUB substitute
SYN synchronous idle
TAB tabulator
US unit separator
VT vertical tabulator
XOFF transmission off
XON transmission on

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