On 12/21/21 6:48 PM, fatipa...@tutanota.com wrote:
If you want to read about the format specifiers, the first link from
Lawrence's message is authoritative.
Is printf an external program to bash? In this age, one uses a simple
search on a manual rather
than reading the 200 pages.
It's a builtin that behaves the same as, with additions, as the standalone
version. There's no need to duplicate that information; the differences are
what's important to put in the man page.
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