PRINTF("1") manual page
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printf - format and print data
printf FORMAT [ARGUMENT]...
printf OPTION
Print ARGUMENT(s) according to FORMAT, or execute
according to OPTION:
- --help
- display this help and exit
- --version
- output version
information and exit
FORMAT controls the output as in C printf. Interpreted
sequences are:
- \"
- double quote
- \NNN
- character with octal value NNN (1 to
3 digits)
- \\
- backslash
- \a
- alert (BEL)
- \b
- backspace
- \c
- produce no further output
- \f
- form feed
- \n
- new line
- \r
- carriage return
- \t
- horizontal tab
- \v
- vertical tab
- \xHH
- byte with hexadecimal value HH (1 to 2 digits)
- \uHHHH
- Unicode (ISO/IEC
10646) character with hex value HHHH (4 digits)
- \UHHHHHHHH
- Unicode character
with hex value HHHHHHHH (8 digits)
- %%
- a single %
- %b
- ARGUMENT as a string
with ‘\’ escapes interpreted, except that octal escapes are of the form \0
or \0NNN
and all C format specifications ending with one of diouxXfeEgGcs,
with ARGUMENTs converted to proper type first. Variable widths are handled.
NOTE: your shell may have its own version of printf, which usually supersedes
the version described here. Please refer to your shell’s documentation for
details about the options it supports.
Written by David MacKenzie.
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
Copyright © 2008
Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There
is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
printf(3)
The full
documentation for printf is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info
and printf programs are properly installed at your site, the command
- info
coreutils ’printf invocation’
should give you access to the complete manual.
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