Index: src/shell.c
==================================================================
--- src/shell.c
+++ src/shell.c
@@ -987,11 +987,20 @@
       break;
     }
     case MODE_Insert: {
       p->cnt++;
       if( azArg==0 ) break;
-      fprintf(p->out,"INSERT INTO %s VALUES(",p->zDestTable);
+      fprintf(p->out,"INSERT INTO %s",p->zDestTable);
+      if( p->showHeader ){
+        fprintf(p->out,"(");
+        for(i=0; i<nArg; i++){
+          char *zSep = i>0 ? ",": "";
+          fprintf(p->out, "%s%s", zSep, azCol[i]);
+        }
+        fprintf(p->out,")");
+      }
+      fprintf(p->out," VALUES(");
       for(i=0; i<nArg; i++){
         char *zSep = i>0 ? ",": "";
         if( (azArg[i]==0) || (aiType && aiType[i]==SQLITE_NULL) ){
           fprintf(p->out,"%sNULL",zSep);
         }else if( aiType && aiType[i]==SQLITE_TEXT ){
@@ -1769,10 +1778,11 @@
 ** Text of a help message
 */
 static char zHelp[] =
   ".backup ?DB? FILE      Backup DB (default \"main\") to FILE\n"
   ".bail on|off           Stop after hitting an error.  Default OFF\n"
+  ".binary on|off         Turn binary output on or off.  Default OFF\n"
   ".clone NEWDB           Clone data into NEWDB from the existing database\n"
   ".databases             List names and files of attached databases\n"
   ".dbinfo ?DB?           Show status information about the database\n"
   ".dump ?TABLE? ...      Dump the database in an SQL text format\n"
   "                         If TABLE specified, only dump tables matching\n"
@@ -1930,30 +1940,48 @@
 }
 
 /*
 ** Do C-language style dequoting.
 **
+**    \a    -> alarm
+**    \b    -> backspace
 **    \t    -> tab
 **    \n    -> newline
+**    \v    -> vertical tab
+**    \f    -> form feed
 **    \r    -> carriage return
+**    \s    -> space
 **    \"    -> "
-**    \NNN  -> ascii character NNN in octal
+**    \'    -> '
 **    \\    -> backslash
+**    \NNN  -> ascii character NNN in octal
 */
 static void resolve_backslashes(char *z){
   int i, j;
   char c;
   while( *z && *z!='\\' ) z++;
   for(i=j=0; (c = z[i])!=0; i++, j++){
     if( c=='\\' && z[i+1]!=0 ){
       c = z[++i];
-      if( c=='n' ){
-        c = '\n';
+      if( c=='a' ){
+        c = '\a';
+      }else if( c=='b' ){
+        c = '\b';
       }else if( c=='t' ){
         c = '\t';
+      }else if( c=='n' ){
+        c = '\n';
+      }else if( c=='v' ){
+        c = '\v';
+      }else if( c=='f' ){
+        c = '\f';
       }else if( c=='r' ){
         c = '\r';
+      }else if( c=='"' ){
+        c = '"';
+      }else if( c=='\'' ){
+        c = '\'';
       }else if( c=='\\' ){
         c = '\\';
       }else if( c>='0' && c<='7' ){
         c -= '0';
         if( z[i+1]>='0' && z[i+1]<='7' ){
@@ -2682,10 +2710,23 @@
     }else{
       fprintf(stderr, "Usage: .bail on|off\n");
       rc = 1;
     }
   }else
+
+  if( c=='b' && n>=3 && strncmp(azArg[0], "binary", n)==0 ){
+    if( nArg==2 ){
+      if( booleanValue(azArg[1]) ){
+        setBinaryMode(p->out);
+      }else{
+        setTextMode(p->out);
+      }
+    }else{
+      fprintf(stderr, "Usage: .binary on|off\n");
+      rc = 1;
+    }
+  }else
 
   /* The undocumented ".breakpoint" command causes a call to the no-op
   ** routine named test_breakpoint().
   */
   if( c=='b' && n>=3 && strncmp(azArg[0], "breakpoint", n)==0 ){

Index: test/shell1.test
==================================================================
--- test/shell1.test
+++ test/shell1.test
@@ -736,10 +736,13 @@
   sqlite3 db test.db
   db eval {
     PRAGMA encoding=UTF16;
     CREATE TABLE t1(x);
     INSERT INTO t1 VALUES(null), (''), (1), (2.25), ('hello'), (x'807f');
+    CREATE TABLE t3(x,y);
+    INSERT INTO t3 VALUES(1,null), (2,''), (3,1),
+                         (4,2.25), (5,'hello'), (6,x'807f');
   }
   catchcmd test.db {.dump}
 } {0 {PRAGMA foreign_keys=OFF;
 BEGIN TRANSACTION;
 CREATE TABLE t1(x);
@@ -747,22 +750,62 @@
 INSERT INTO "t1" VALUES('');
 INSERT INTO "t1" VALUES(1);
 INSERT INTO "t1" VALUES(2.25);
 INSERT INTO "t1" VALUES('hello');
 INSERT INTO "t1" VALUES(X'807F');
+CREATE TABLE t3(x,y);
+INSERT INTO "t3" VALUES(1,NULL);
+INSERT INTO "t3" VALUES(2,'');
+INSERT INTO "t3" VALUES(3,1);
+INSERT INTO "t3" VALUES(4,2.25);
+INSERT INTO "t3" VALUES(5,'hello');
+INSERT INTO "t3" VALUES(6,X'807F');
 COMMIT;}}
 
 # Test the output of ".mode insert"
 #
-do_test shell1-4.2 {
+do_test shell1-4.2.1 {
   catchcmd test.db ".mode insert t1\nselect * from t1;"
 } {0 {INSERT INTO t1 VALUES(NULL);
 INSERT INTO t1 VALUES('');
 INSERT INTO t1 VALUES(1);
 INSERT INTO t1 VALUES(2.25);
 INSERT INTO t1 VALUES('hello');
 INSERT INTO t1 VALUES(X'807f');}}
+
+# Test the output of ".mode insert" with headers
+#
+do_test shell1-4.2.2 {
+  catchcmd test.db ".mode insert t1\n.headers on\nselect * from t1;"
+} {0 {INSERT INTO t1(x) VALUES(NULL);
+INSERT INTO t1(x) VALUES('');
+INSERT INTO t1(x) VALUES(1);
+INSERT INTO t1(x) VALUES(2.25);
+INSERT INTO t1(x) VALUES('hello');
+INSERT INTO t1(x) VALUES(X'807f');}}
+
+# Test the output of ".mode insert"
+#
+do_test shell1-4.2.3 {
+  catchcmd test.db ".mode insert t3\nselect * from t3;"
+} {0 {INSERT INTO t3 VALUES(1,NULL);
+INSERT INTO t3 VALUES(2,'');
+INSERT INTO t3 VALUES(3,1);
+INSERT INTO t3 VALUES(4,2.25);
+INSERT INTO t3 VALUES(5,'hello');
+INSERT INTO t3 VALUES(6,X'807f');}}
+
+# Test the output of ".mode insert" with headers
+#
+do_test shell1-4.2.4 {
+  catchcmd test.db ".mode insert t3\n.headers on\nselect * from t3;"
+} {0 {INSERT INTO t3(x,y) VALUES(1,NULL);
+INSERT INTO t3(x,y) VALUES(2,'');
+INSERT INTO t3(x,y) VALUES(3,1);
+INSERT INTO t3(x,y) VALUES(4,2.25);
+INSERT INTO t3(x,y) VALUES(5,'hello');
+INSERT INTO t3(x,y) VALUES(6,X'807f');}}
 
 # Test the output of ".mode tcl"
 #
 do_test shell1-4.3 {
   db close
@@ -815,7 +858,64 @@
 "]"
 "\\{"
 "\\}"
 ";"
 "$"} 7}
+
+# Test using arbitrary byte data with the shell via standard input/output.
+#
+do_test shell1-5.0 {
+  #
+  # NOTE: Skip NUL byte because it appears to be incompatible with command
+  #       shell argument parsing.
+  #
+  for {set i 1} {$i < 256} {incr i} {
+    #
+    # NOTE: Due to how the Tcl [exec] command works (i.e. where it treats
+    #       command channels opened for it as textual ones), the carriage
+    #       return character (and on Windows, the end-of-file character)
+    #       cannot be used here.
+    #
+    if {$i==0x0D || ($tcl_platform(platform)=="windows" && $i==0x1A)} {
+      continue
+    }
+    set hex [format %02X $i]
+    set char [subst \\x$hex]; set oldChar $char
+    set escapes [list]
+    if {$tcl_platform(platform)=="windows"} {
+      #
+      # NOTE: On Windows, we need to escape all the whitespace characters,
+      #       the alarm (\a) character, and those with special meaning to
+      #       the SQLite shell itself.
+      #
+      set escapes [list \
+          \a \\a \b \\b \t \\t \n \\n \v \\v \f \\f \r \\r \
+          " " "\" \"" \" \\\" ' \"'\" \\ \\\\]
+    } else {
+      #
+      # NOTE: On Unix, we need to escape most of the whitespace characters
+      #       and those with special meaning to the SQLite shell itself.
+      #       The alarm (\a), backspace (\b), and carriage-return (\r)
+      #       characters do not appear to require escaping on Unix.  For
+      #       the alarm and backspace characters, this is probably due to
+      #       differences in the command shell.  For the carriage-return,
+      #       it is probably due to differences in how Tcl handles command
+      #       channel end-of-line translations.
+      #
+      set escapes [list \
+          \t \\t \n \\n \v \\v \f \\f \
+          " " "\" \"" \" \\\" ' \"'\" \\ \\\\]
+    }
+    set char [string map $escapes $char]
+    set x [catchcmdex test.db ".print $char\n"]
+    set code [lindex $x 0]
+    set res [lindex $x 1]
+    if {$code ne "0"} {
+      error "failed with error: $res"
+    }
+    if {$res ne "$oldChar\n"} {
+      error "failed with byte $hex mismatch"
+    }
+  }
+} {}
 
 finish_test

Index: test/tester.tcl
==================================================================
--- test/tester.tcl
+++ test/tester.tcl
@@ -663,10 +663,19 @@
     puts " Omitted"
     omit_test $name "pattern mismatch" 0
   }
   flush stdout
 }
+
+proc dumpbytes {s} {
+  set r ""
+  for {set i 0} {$i < [string length $s]} {incr i} {
+    if {$i > 0} {append r " "}
+    append r [format %02X [scan [string index $s $i] %c]]
+  }
+  return $r
+}
 
 proc catchcmd {db {cmd ""}} {
   global CLI
   set out [open cmds.txt w]
   puts $out $cmd
@@ -673,10 +682,34 @@
   close $out
   set line "exec $CLI $db < cmds.txt"
   set rc [catch { eval $line } msg]
   list $rc $msg
 }
+
+proc catchcmdex {db {cmd ""}} {
+  global CLI
+  set out [open cmds.txt w]
+  fconfigure $out -encoding binary -translation binary
+  puts -nonewline $out $cmd
+  close $out
+  set line "exec -keepnewline -- $CLI $db < cmds.txt"
+  set chans [list stdin stdout stderr]
+  foreach chan $chans {
+    catch {
+      set modes($chan) [fconfigure $chan]
+      fconfigure $chan -encoding binary -translation binary -buffering none
+    }
+  }
+  set rc [catch { eval $line } msg]
+  foreach chan $chans {
+    catch {
+      eval fconfigure [list $chan] $modes($chan)
+    }
+  }
+  # puts [dumpbytes $msg]
+  list $rc $msg
+}
 
 proc filepath_normalize {p} {
   # test cases should be written to assume "unix"-like file paths
   if {$::tcl_platform(platform)!="unix"} {
     # lreverse*2 as a hack to remove any unneeded {} after the string map