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On 6/24/13 6:52 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 24 June 2013 16:13:01 Chet Ramey wrote:
>> On 6/17/13 1:27 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> simple test code:
>>> unset foo
>>> printf -v foo ""
>>> echo ${foo+set}
>>>
>>> that does not display "set". seems to have been this way since the
>>> feature was added in bash-3.1.
>>
>> printf returns immediately if the format string is null. It has always
>> been implemented this way.
>
> seems like when the -v arg is in use, that [otherwise reasonable] shortcut
> should be not taken ?
Maybe. I'll take a look. I suspect that the amount of code that depends
on the current behavior is pretty small.
Chet
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