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Re: What is the opposite of 'printf'?
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Bob Proulx |
Subject: |
Re: What is the opposite of 'printf'? |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:30:36 -0700 |
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Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> apparently uudecode is also out; my computer has man pages for it
> but no programs(?!). Conversely, I can't say I've run into a system
> yet that lacks printf.
>
> So my original question remains... would anyone be interested in
> considering 'unprintf' for inclusion in coreutils? (Note: I /am/
> volunteering to write and maintain it.)
If your requirement is that the command must already exist on the
system then that definitely defeats the addition of a new command.
Also uuencode/uudecode is many times more standard than some not yet
created command.
Note that shar has traditionally included the C source code to a
simple uudecode such that it would be compiled on the target system
and created on the fly if it did not exist. The decoder can be very
small.
Bob
- What is the opposite of 'printf'?, Matthew Woehlke, 2006/12/11
- Re: What is the opposite of 'printf'?, Eric Blake, 2006/12/11
- Re: What is the opposite of 'printf'?, Bob Proulx, 2006/12/12
- Re: What is the opposite of 'printf'?, Matthew Woehlke, 2006/12/12
- Re: What is the opposite of 'printf'?, Matthew Woehlke, 2006/12/18
- Re: What is the opposite of 'printf'?, Pádraig Brady, 2006/12/19