URL:
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Summary: printf breakage: variable precision: %.*s
conversion.
Project: GNU Core Utilities
Submitted by: kkylheku
Submitted on: Sat 28 Nov 2009 03:30:20 AM PST
Category: None
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
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Details:
Using a coreutils 7.3, I discovered printf breakage:
The following should print 21 dashes.
printf '%.*s\n' 21 -------------------------------------------
It works if the * precision is literally replaced by 21, as in:
printf '%.21s\n' -------------------------------------------
Oops!
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