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Re: printf oddity (coreutils 5.0)
From: |
Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: printf oddity (coreutils 5.0) |
Date: |
Tue, 17 Feb 2004 00:40:22 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> writes:
> I'm not sure if this is a bug, but
>
> printf "%c" 49
>
> prints
>
> 4
This is correct. %c treats the argument as a string and prints the first
character of it.
Andreas.
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