This was removed in 2001 but I think it is appropriate to add it back:
* I do not want to encourage people to write fragile and non-portable echo
commands by making printf much slower than echo.
* Recent versions of Autoconf use it a lot.
* Almost no software still wants to support systems that do not have
printf(1) at all.
* In many other shells printf is already a builtin.
Side effect: printf is now always the builtin version (which behaves
identically to /usr/bin/printf) and cannot be overridden via PATH (except
via the undocumented %builtin mechanism).
Code size increases about 5K on i386. Embedded folks might want to replace
/usr/bin/printf with a hard link to /usr/bin/alias.
but \0ddd in a %b argument, with a length restriction of 3 octal digits
in either case. This seems silly, but it needs to be right so it's possible
to write an octal escape followed by an ordinary digit. Solaris printf(1)
and GNU printf(1) also behave this way.
Example: "printf '\0752'" now produces "=2" instead of garbage.
When L is omitted, double precision is used, so printf(1) gives
reproducable results. When L is specified, long double precision is
used, which may improve precision, depending on the machine.
possible to print the thousands separator in the locale setups that
have one, by something like this:
$ env -i LC_NUMERIC=en_US.ISO8859-1 ./printf "%'0.2f\n" 12345
12,345.00
Reviewed by: das
being reported by /usr/bin/printf.
This bug has been around for 22 months... either nobody uses printf
with floating-point values, or people are forgetting to check their
return codes.
Approved by: rwatson (mentor)
Add some constness to avoid some warnings.
Remove use register keyword.
Deal with missing/unneeded extern/prototypes.
Some minor type changes/casts to avoid warnings.
Reviewed by: md5
Exit with nonzero status if a conversion failed.
Play nice if used as a shell builtin (currently disabled).
Submitted by: bde (partially)
Approved by: mike
processing them.
- \c escape to immediately stop output (similar to echo's \c)
- \0NNN should be allowed for octal character escapes (instead of just \NNN)
- %b conversion, which is like %s but interprets \n \t etc. inside the
string is missing.
And I may not be any poet, but in lieu of an in-tree regression test:
ref5% ./printf '%s%b%b%c%s%d\n' 'PR' '\0072' '\t' '3' '56' 0x10
PR: 35616
Submitted by: tjr
MFC after: 1 week
known to printf(3) and then used printf() to format it... The only
problem what the #define printf out1fmt. The code was behaving differently
when run as a shell builtin since out1fmt() isn't printf(3).
Simple hack. Print to a buffer and fputs (also #defined for sh) the
result. This should fix the printf builtin problem in PR#1673, rather
than leaving the call commented out. (printf.o was being statically linked
in anyway, we might as well use it)
