Package: coreutils
Version: 6.10-3
Severity: normal
'man printf' has nothing about '%' syntax, but refers to:
info coreutils 'printf invocation'
...which also has nothing about '%', and no links to that info.
What users need is either or both of these:
info printf
man 3 printf
I'd send a patch, but I don't know how to work with 'help2man' data:
% zcat /usr/share/man/man1/printf.1.gz | head -n 1
.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.35.
Hope this helps...
See also:
#176966 coreutils: printf(1) manpage less complete than printf(3)
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=176966
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.45-1 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libselinux1 2.0.35-1 SELinux shared libraries
coreutils recommends no packages.
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