Re: Not a bug... but, where is 'sprintf' builtin?

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, William Park wrote:

> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: i686
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: gcc
> Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' 
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu' 
> -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/local/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' 
> -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -I.  -I. -I./include -I./lib   -O4 -march=i686
> uname output: Linux node1 2.6.7 #6 SMP Sun Aug 22 23:49:58 EDT 2004 i686 
> unknown unknown GNU/Linux
> Machine Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu
>
> Bash Version: 3.0
> Patch Level: 0
>
> Description:
>
>    In ./CHANGES, it mentions 'sprintf' builtin,
>
>         > a.  There is a new loadable builtin: sprintf, with calling syntax
>         >            sprintf var format [args]
>         >     This provides an easy way to simulate ksh left- and 
> right-justified
>         >     variable values.
>
>    Has it been withdrawn?  I guess, you can do
>         var=`printf format [args]`
>    instead, but...

    Unfortunately, using command substitution is very slow; sprintf
    would be a nice addition.

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