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  • \$\begingroup\$ Could you use another file, possibly with a shorter name, that's essentially guaranteed to have all possible octets? and might even terminate? I'm thinking like /dev/memory or something. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Jan 30, 2014 at 14:20
  • \$\begingroup\$ @fennec if we assume that man and zsh are installed, man zshall seems to fit the criteria. I could add that as a variation. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Jan 30, 2014 at 18:20
  • \$\begingroup\$ man ascii could save you another letter, I think. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Jan 31, 2014 at 2:51
  • \$\begingroup\$ Which tr are you using? GNU tr treats the - in "cat $0" as a range operator, which breaks the output. \$\endgroup\$ Commented May 21, 2018 at 10:15
  • \$\begingroup\$ BTW, if the ascii program is installed, you could use that in place of man ascii. \$\endgroup\$ Commented May 21, 2018 at 10:16