Re: printf treats arguments of "%c" not as expected

[Jan Schampera]

Yunfeng Wang wrote:

> Perhaps bash should clarify this issue in its documents such that users like me
> would not be misguided again.

Since the reference to printf(3) is misleading sometimes, I made some 
document [1] for Bash's printf only. It's far from perfect, but at least 
 it mentions %s and "first character" ;-)


Jan


[1] http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/commands/builtin/printf

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