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| From: | arnold |
| Subject: | bug#18987: the bourne shell printf-vs-\xHH portability trap |
| Date: | Sat, 08 Nov 2014 12:46:15 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Heirloom mailx 12.4 7/29/08 |
Norihiro Tanaka <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks, but it seem that it is also unportable. On Solaris 10 and AIX 7,
> below. Need Gawk for tests?
>
> $ awk 'BEGIN { printf "\x41" }' </dev/null
> \x41
If you use octal it should work with any awk.
Arnold
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