Robert Elz via austin-group-l at The Open Group <austin-group-l@opengroup.org> wrote:
> I should have included dash and yash in that list - their error messages > are very similar to what /usr/bin/printf on NetBSD prints (and the NetBSD sh, > which uses the same source code for its builtin printf), but when I looked > closer, I can see they are not actually the same - so those clearly have > a builtin printf as well (they behave the same way as bash, the NetBSD sh > and bosh). If the code you are using is from FreeBSD (Garret Damore) then there are some minor bugs in it. Sorry, I no longer remember the exact problems The code from bosh has been written from scratch to fully support %n$ and this is what we should add to the standard in the near future. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sf.net/projects/schilytools/files/'