On 27/10/2022 21:46, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 10/27/22 16:41, Pádraig Brady wrote:
Previously this was restricted to the C standard subset
which restricted most values <= 0x9F, as that simplifies the C lexer.
However printf(1) doesn't need this restriction.
Note also the bash builtin printf already supports all values <= 0x9F.
Nice one.
BTW: do we also want to support the new modifier that bash has since version
5.2?
r. The `printf' builtin has a new format specifier: %Q. This acts like %q
but
applies any specified precision to the original unquoted argument, then
quotes and outputs the result.
That does sound useful.
However we yet don't support qualifiers on %q
which would need to come first.
$ printf '%.4q\n' 'sp ace' # builtin
sp\
$ env printf '%.4q\n' 'sp ace'
printf: %.4q: invalid conversion specification
cheers,
Pádraig
