On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:53:19AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 04 Jun 2009, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > > It is not an alternative: > > - It is ugly > > - it is not on root partition > > > > The ugly part it is IMHO the most important part. > > Ugliness is relative. I have no problem with printf.
Consider this example: the safe "printf" way to do echo $BAR is printf "%s\n" "$BAR" (in case BAR hold a value like BAR="%s a") So printf is slightly unwiedly to use and it can create format string attack. > For the second argument: > > [ using bash ] > $ type printf > printf is a shell builtin > $ dash > $ type printf > printf is a shell builtin > > There's no external executable needed. Are all these shell builtin compatible with /usr/bin/printf ? Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
