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Re: printf octal literals
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: printf octal literals |
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Mon, 05 May 2014 10:07:56 -0400 |
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On 5/5/14, 7:09 AM, Dan Douglas wrote:
> Just a heads up on something I hadn't noticed: Bash (and dash) treat
> octal literals in printf precision inconsistently (using glibc -- not
> sure if it's a bug or GNUism on that end or the shell):
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> $ bash -c 'printf "<%.010d> <%.*d>\n" 1 010 1'
> <0000000001> <00000001>
Bash uses the libc printf engine; the printf builtin just marshals
arguments and calls vfprintf.
Chet
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