tag 17601 notabug close 17601 stop On 05/26/2014 05:41 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: > printf '\x41' prints "x41" instead of "A". > > Also it has no --help or --version switch, but I seem to be running > version 8.21-1ubuntu5 ( obviously on ubuntu ).
$ type printf printf is a shell builtin $ dash -c "printf '\x41\n'" \x41 $ bash -c "printf '\x41\n'" A $ dash -c "env printf '\x41\n'" A
