#!/usr/bin/perl
# Turn C-style octal escapes into binary.
# Call as "echo -n 'ab\0\001cd' | oct2bin > out.binmode".

binmode STDOUT;

while (<>) {
    s/\\(\d\d\d)/chr(oct($1))/ge;
    s/\\0/chr(0)/ge;
    s/\\\\/\\/g;
    print $_;
}