Hello Christopher, thank you for opening this bug and helping make Ubuntu (and coreutils!) better.
I am somewhat confused here. Are you suggesting a change in wording? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to coreutils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1847152 Title: printf escape sentences are insufficiently documented Status in coreutils package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: The info page for ‘printf’ is misleading because the C ‘printf’ function does not interpret any escape sequences. So, interpreting this specification literally, all escape sequences are differences but not all of them are listed below. In particular, the sequence ‘\e’ is not listed. 1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System -> About Ubuntu 19.04 2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy pkgname' or by checking in Software Center 8.30-1ubuntu1 3) What you expected to happen ‘printf’ prints the FORMAT string, interpreting ‘\’ escapes as specified below and interpreting ‘%’ directives to format numeric and string arguments in a way that is mostly similar to the C ‘printf’ function. *Note ‘printf’ format directives: (libc)Output Conversion Syntax, for details. The differences are listed below. 4) What happened instead ‘printf’ prints the FORMAT string, interpreting ‘%’ directives and ‘\’ escapes to format numeric and string arguments in a way that is mostly similar to the C ‘printf’ function. *Note ‘printf’ format directives: (libc)Output Conversion Syntax, for details. The differences are listed below. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04 Package: coreutils 8.30-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-31.33-generic 5.0.21 Uname: Linux 5.0.0-31-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27.1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Mon Oct 7 23:24:39 2019 ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: coreutils UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/1847152/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
