On 12/19/14, 9:46 AM, Maarten Billemont wrote:
> man 3 printf describes the following:
>
> o An optional field, consisting of a decimal digit string followed
> by a $, specifying the next argument to access. If this field is not
> provided,
> the argument following the last argum
On 12/19/2014 07:46 AM, Maarten Billemont wrote:
> Is there a particular reason why bash's built-in printf does not support
> this format modifier?
Because POSIX does not require it to. printf(1) is only required to
have a subset of printf(3) functionality:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9
man 3 printf describes the following:
o An optional field, consisting of a decimal digit string followed
by a $, specifying the next argument to access. If this field is not
provided,
the argument following the last argument accessed will be used.
Arguments are numbered starting a
