Ascii Table 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 00 NUL SOH SOT ETX EOT ENQ ACK BEL 01 BS TAB LF VT FF CR SO SI 02 DLE DC1 DC2 DC3 DC4 NAK SYN ETB 03 CAN EM SUB ESC FS GS RS US 04 SPC ! " # $ % & ' 05 ( ) * + , - . / 06 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 07 8 9 : ; < = > ? 10 @ A B C D E F G 11 H I J K L M N O 12 P Q R S T U V W 13 X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _ 14 ` a b c d e f g 15 h i j k l m n o 16 p q r s t u v w 17 x y z { | } ~ DEL Control Characters Oct Hx Dec C ^ 3LA Name and Usage 000 00 0 ^@ NUL Null, end of a C string. 001 01 1 ^A SOH Start of Header, default escape char for GNU screen. 002 02 2 ^B SOT Start of Text, default escape char for Tmux. 003 03 3 ^C ETX End of Text, kills foreground process on Unix. 004 04 4 ^D EOT End of Transmission, hangs up the current process. 005 05 5 ^E ENQ Enquiry 006 06 6 ^F ACK Acknowledge 007 07 7 \a ^G BEL Bell, beeps or flashes the terminal. 010 08 8 \b ^H BS Backspace, deletes character before cursor. 011 09 9 \t ^I TAB Tab, switches active panels, indents in editors. 012 0A 10 \n ^J LF Line Feed, end of line on unix, sent by enter key. 013 0B 11 \v ^K VT Vertical Tab 014 0C 12 \f ^L FF Form Feed 015 0D 13 \r ^M CR Carriage Return, \r\n is end of line on Windows. 016 0E 14 ^N SO Shift Out 017 0F 15 ^O SI Shift In, open usually, save in nano. 020 10 16 ^P DLE Data Link Escape 021 11 17 ^Q DC1 Device Control 1 (Transfer on) 022 12 18 ^R DC2 Device Control 2 023 13 19 ^S DC3 Device Control 3 (Transfer off) 024 14 20 ^T DC4 Device Control 4 025 15 21 ^U NAK Negative Acknowledge 026 16 22 ^V SYN Synchronous idle 027 17 23 ^W ETB End of Transmission Block 030 18 24 ^X CAN Cancel 031 19 25 ^Y EM End of Medium 032 1A 26 ^Z SUB Substitute, stop process on unix. 033 1B 27 \e ^[ ESC Escape, next regular character is Alted. 034 1C 28 ^\ FS File Separator 035 1D 29 ^] GS Group Separator 036 1E 30 ^^ RS Record Separator 037 1F 31 ^_ US Unit Separator 177 7F 127 ^? DEL Delete. Delete key usually sends ^[[3~ instead.