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| From: | Eric Blake |
| Subject: | Re: human-readable / block-size as a general utility? |
| Date: | Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:09:12 -0600 |
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On 08/18/2011 08:00 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
Perhaps a printf format spec? %h is available,
No it's not. printf %hx prints a short int, printf %hhx prints a char as an int.
Meanwhile, although both the bash builtin and coreutils' printf parse these two formats, they actually still end up widening to int before printing; arguably a bug:
$ printf %hhx -1 ffffffffffffffff $ echo 'format(%hx,-1)' | m4 ff -- Eric Blake address@hidden +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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