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Re: printf(1) does not support argument swapping
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Eric Blake |
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Re: printf(1) does not support argument swapping |
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Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:20:21 +0000 (UTC) |
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Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:
> Thanks for the report. POSIX does not require printf(1) to support
> argument swapping:
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/printf.html
>
> So this is technically not a bug. However, if you would like to submit a
> patch that adds this as an extension, we will probably consider it for
> coreutils' printf. If you want the bash builtin to also make this
> improvement, then bring that to the attention of the bug-bash list.
It looks like zsh already supports this extension, so there is prior art, which
makes it all the more justifiable to add this to coreutils:
$ zsh -c 'printf %1\$s hi'
hi
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Eric Blake