Manpage of PRINTF
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Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: March 2005
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NAME
printf - format and print data
SYNOPSIS
printf
FORMAT [ARGUMENT]...
printf
OPTION
DESCRIPTION
NOTE: your shell may have its own version of printf which will supersede
the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documentation
for details about the options it supports.
Print ARGUMENT(s) according to FORMAT.
- --help
-
display this help and exit
- --version
-
output version information and exit
FORMAT controls the output as in C printf. Interpreted sequences are:
- \"
-
double quote
- \NNN
-
character with octal value NNN (1 to 3 digits)
- \\
-
backslash
- \a
-
alert (BEL)
- \b
-
backspace
- \c
-
produce no further output
- \f
-
form feed
- \n
-
new line
- \r
-
carriage return
- \t
-
horizontal tab
- \v
-
vertical tab
- \xHH
-
byte with hexadecimal value HH (1 to 2 digits)
- \uHHHH
-
Unicode (ISO/IEC 10646) character with hex value HHHH (4 digits)
- \UHHHHHHHH
-
Unicode character with hex value HHHHHHHH (8 digits)
- %%
-
a single %
- %b
-
ARGUMENT as a string with `\' escapes interpreted,
-
except that octal escapes are of the form \0 or \0NNN
and all C format specifications ending with one of diouxXfeEgGcs, with
ARGUMENTs converted to proper type first. Variable widths are handled.
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for
printf
is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
info
and
printf
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
-
info printf
should give you access to the complete manual.
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- AUTHOR
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- REPORTING BUGS
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- COPYRIGHT
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- SEE ALSO
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