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Re: bug in printf bash command


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: bug in printf bash command
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 08:34:37 -0600
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According to James Youngman on 7/21/2007 8:25 AM:
[thread starts at
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-07/msg00060.html]

>>> address@hidden "%02i" 09
>>> -bash: printf: 09: invalid number
>>
>> printf "%02i" 011
>>
>> gets you 09.
> 
> 
> Obviously, "Invalid octal number" would have been a more helpful error
> message.

Not as obvious, this was reported to the wrong list.  Coreutils' printf
does this:

$ /bin/printf %02i 09
/bin/printf: 09: value not completely converted

It is bash's printf which could be improved, so I'm forwarding this to the
bug-bash list.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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