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Re: Bash printf builtin bug
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: Bash printf builtin bug |
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Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:19:17 -0500 |
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Chet Ramey <chet@caleb.ins.cwru.edu> wrote:
> That's what the `--' first argument is for: don't treat any remaining
> arguments as possible options.
Does printf have any options? If not is there any point in giving an
error in this case? ISTM SUSv3 requires the first argument to be a
format string, regardless of whether it starts with "-". That's how
coreutils does it.
paul