how to create flat file delimited by "\002"

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I need to create a flat file with columns delimited by "\002" (octal 2)

I tried using the simple echo.

 
name="Adam Smith"
age=40
address="1 main st"
city="New York"
echo ${name}"\002"${age}"\002"${address}"\002"${city} > mytmp

but it creates a delimiter with different octal code.

 
Adam Smith^T0^Q main st^BNew York

Please help

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replace echo by printf
Sample for you.

printf "%s \002 %s \002" ${name} ${age}
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name="Adam Smith"
age=40

printf "%s\002%s" "${name}" "${age}" > outfile
xxd -a outfile
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Thanks guys. printf worked.

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Just for interest the "echo" version can be made to work by creating the delimiter separately to avoid interaction with any numbers in the final echo statement.

name="Adam Smith"
age=40
address="1 main st"
city="New York"
delimiter=`echo "\0002\c"`
echo "${name}${delimiter}${age}${delimiter}${address}${delimiter}${city}" > mytmp