Hello, I'm using GNU coreutils 8.30, I found that the printf tool is broken while coding a shell script.
andrea@Workstation:~$ printf --version bash: printf: --: invalid option printf: usage: printf [-v var] format [arguments] I tried with coreutils 8.32 too with the same error. PRINTF(1) man page reports the option valid: NAME printf - format and print data SYNOPSIS printf FORMAT [ARGUMENT]... printf OPTION DESCRIPTION Print ARGUMENT(s) according to FORMAT, or execute according to OPTION: --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit ... the option --help works. I have another issue with printf, I wanted to print a string that starts with "-" and printf parse it like an option: andrea@Workstation:~$ printf "->" bash: printf: ->: invalid option printf: usage: printf [-v var] format [arguments] I'm doing something wrong? Best Regards, Andrea Dari