special character in UNIX

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Published on 2010-04-15T11:22:27Z Indexed on 2010/04/15 11:23 UTC
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I want to add backspace character literally in my file named junk. So I did following
$ ed
a
my name is happy\b (here b means I typed backspace so \ gets disapperaed and cursor sits sfter y)
.
w junk
q

But when I do
$ od -cb junk
it doesn't show backspace.

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