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Re: 'printf' is not SuSv3 compliant (and maybe not POSIX...?)
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Bob Proulx |
Subject: |
Re: 'printf' is not SuSv3 compliant (and maybe not POSIX...?) |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Sep 2002 22:30:23 -0600 |
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Mutt/1.4i |
DervishD <address@hidden> [2002-08-19 20:37:55 +0200]:
> The 'printf' command (no matter the POSIXLY_CORRECT var), chokes
> on the following:
>
> > printf -- "Hi there\n"
> --printf: warning: excess arguments have been ignored
>
> The correct behaviour, according to Single UNIX Specification
> version 3 (don't know the POSIX behaviour), is that 'printf' shall
> recognize '--' as a first argument to be discarded. That is, if I
> want to print '--help', I shouldn't need to set POSIXLY_CORRECT, but
> just do 'printf -- --help'.
Thanks for the report. I logged this as a bug against GNU coreutils
and it is now in the database.
Bob
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