bug#72567: printf: Incorrect description of "%b"

[Pádraig Brady]

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On 11/08/2024 04:05, Keith Thompson wrote:
> There are three different descriptions of the printf(1) "%b" format:
>
> - printf --help
> - man printf.1
> - info coreutils printf
>
> As of release 9.5 and the latest version in git (Thu 2024-08-08
> c5725c8c4), the first two incorrectly say that octal escapes are
> of the form \0 or \0NNN. In fact the \0 can be followed by 0 to 3
> octal digits.

Right. The main point there really is that a leading 0 is the exception.
(A leading 0 is required by ksh for example, but optional elsewhere).
I've pushed a change along those lines at:
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/296cc3ed9

thanks,
Pádraig