Thanks. It's working fine now. "%c" 65 is giving 'A' :) What I still didn't get it, is this a bug or a feature left intentionally? In the later case, I think the man/info pages should be changed to reflect it.
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > I deleted it and added /usr/local/bin to my path. `printf "%c" 65' > is still outputting '6' but `/usr/local/bin/printf "%c" 65' is > giving 'A'. Any idea what's going wrong? > > Shell builtin probobly. > > If you are using GNU bash then the following will disable the printf > builtin: > > enable -n printf > -- Real programmers don't work 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
