On Thursday, February 13, 2025, Martin D Kealey <mar...@kurahaupo.gen.nz> wrote: > > Arguing about printf being an external command (or otherwise not part of > Bash) is not relevant when I'm specifically talking about Bash extensions > to the POSIX spec. >
Changes made to built-in printf have to be adopted by GNU printf, otherwise the user will have two flavors of printf on the same system by the same name. `-v varname' is irrelevant because it's obvious an external command can't change the value of a shell variable. -- Oğuz
