Re: printf hex conversion gives wrong values

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

Thomas Weber wrote:
[snip]
> during developing a new shell script; I detected an erroneous behaviour
> of the printf command.
> printf fails on hex conversion for 008 and 009 and gives wrong values
> for higher numbers, if the digit to convert contains leading zeroes.
> Without leading zeroes the conversion succeeds.
[snip]

I'm guessing that 'printf' is interpretting the number as an octal number,
because of the leading zeroes. I can't seem to find anything in 'man printf'
or 'info printf' to confirm this, though (DJGPP port of sh-utils 2.0.11).

Gruesse,

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