diff --git a/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 b/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 index ddfdcfc9023b..56c685507f74 100644 --- a/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 +++ b/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 @@ -337,6 +337,16 @@ command appeared in It is modeled after the standard library function, .Xr printf 3 . +.Sh CAVEATS +.Tn ANSI +hexadecimal character constants were deliberately not provided. +.Pp +Trying to print a dash ("-") as the first character causes +.Nm +to interpret the dash as a program argument. +.Nm -- +must be used before +.Ar format . .Sh BUGS Since the floating point numbers are translated from .Tn ASCII @@ -348,9 +358,6 @@ The .Cm L modifier may produce additional precision, depending on the hardware platform.) .Pp -.Tn ANSI -hexadecimal character constants were deliberately not provided. -.Pp The escape sequence \e000 is the string terminator. When present in the argument for the .Cm b @@ -360,10 +367,3 @@ Multibyte characters are not recognized in format strings (this is only a problem if .Ql % can appear inside a multibyte character). -.Pp -Trying to print a dash ("-") as the first character causes -.Nm -to interpet the dash as a program argument. -.Nm -- -must be used before -.Ar format .