Hi @misc, I recently stumbled upon an issue with GNU printf(1). I was using echo(1) in a testsuite.at on OpenBSD successfully, but that failed on linux badly. The OpenBSD man page of echo(1) contains this sentence:
Where portability is paramount, use printf(1). So I replaced echo(1) with printf(1). This leads to... OpenBSD: x500$ printf -0 -0x500$ printf -something -somethingx500$ which is the expected output. On linux I get schulte@vps:~$ printf -0 -bash: printf: -0: invalid option printf: usage: printf [-v var] format [arguments] schulte@vps:~$ printf -something -bash: printf: -s: invalid option printf: usage: printf [-v var] format [arguments] Would you rate this a bug in GNU printf(1)? -- Christian
