Re: [Help-bash] Escape Character and NewLine

[Chet Ramey]

On 9/17/19 4:15 PM, Fernando Basso wrote:
> According to the POSIX spec on `printf',
> 
> https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/printf.html
> 
> the "format" shall be used as the format string as described in the File
> Format Notation docs:
> 

Come on. If you read a little further, you see:

"9. The format operand shall be reused as often as necessary to satisfy the
   argument operands. Any extra b, c, or s conversion specifiers shall be
   evaluated as if a null string argument were supplied; other extra
   conversion specifications shall be evaluated as if a zero argument were
   supplied. If the format operand contains no conversion specifications and
   argument operands are present, the results are unspecified."


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