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Re: printf "%c" behavious
From: |
G. Vamsee Krishna |
Subject: |
Re: printf "%c" behavious |
Date: |
Sat, 14 Aug 2004 00:09:03 +0530 (IST) |
Thanks. It's working fine now. "%c" 65 is giving 'A' :)
What I still didn't get it, is this a bug or a feature left intentionally?
In the later case, I think the man/info pages should be changed to reflect
it.
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> I deleted it and added /usr/local/bin to my path. `printf "%c" 65'
> is still outputting '6' but `/usr/local/bin/printf "%c" 65' is
> giving 'A'. Any idea what's going wrong?
>
> Shell builtin probobly.
>
> If you are using GNU bash then the following will disable the printf
> builtin:
>
> enable -n printf
>
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