On Tue Oct 8, 2024 at 3:31 AM CEST, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > [...] > > At 2024-10-07T23:00:59+0000, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > > [...] > > "printf '%s\n%s\n' '.kern 0' '.ss 12 0' | groff -mandoc -Z - " > > [...] > The foregoing is also revealing of a low level of sophistication with > printf(1). That utility applies the given format string to _each_ of > its arguments. > [...]
Only when there are more arguments than there are format specifiers. (Compare `printf '%03d\n' 1 2` with `printf '%03d;%02d\n' 1 2`.) His usage is correct, although I would personally make the requests part of the formatting string as they are constant anyway. ~ onf
