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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 14:30:49 -0500 |
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Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> The SUSv3 has `none' in the OPTIONS section of the printf description.
> The description of that value in the `Utility Description Defaults'
> section of the standard requires that commands which accept operands
> but not options to recognize `--' and handle it appropriately.
Ok. coreutils' printf does handle the "--" case. But other strings
beginning with "-" are treated as format strings. I think that
conforms, but I agree that it's less useful. Solaris printf is the
only one I can find that agrees with coreutils; {Free,Net,Open}BSD
agree with bash.
paul