(on my debian system, bashbug reports for bash 2.05)

printf status is 0 but /usr/bin/printf is 1.  Is this the expected behavior?

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ bash3
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ bash3 --version
GNU bash, version 3.00.16(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ printf '\x'
bash3: printf: missing hex digit for \x
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $?
0
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/bin/printf '\x'
/usr/bin/printf: missing hexadecimal number in escape
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $?
1

-- 
Poor Yorick



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