User Commands                                           PRINTF(1)



NAME
     printf - format and print data

SYNOPSIS
     printf FORMAT [ARGUMENT]...
     printf OPTION

DESCRIPTION
     Print ARGUMENT(s) according to FORMAT.

     --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

     \N character with octal value N (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

     \xH byte with hexadecimal value H (1 to 2 digits)

     \uH
          Unicode (ISO/IEC 10646) character with hex  value  H
          (4 digits)

     \UH
          Unicode character with hex value H (8 digits)

     %%   a single %




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     %b   ARGUMENT as a string with `\' escapes interpreted,

          except that octal escapes are of the form \0 or \0N

     and all C format specifications ending with one  of  diouxX-
     feEgGcs,  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.

AUTHOR
     Written by David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS
     Report bugs to .

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright O 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     This is free software.  You may redistribute  copies  of  it
     under   the   terms   of  the  GNU  General  Public  License
     .  There  is  NO  WAR-
     RANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
     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 printf

     should give you access to the complete manual.

ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

     
       ATRIBUTE TYPE      ATRIBUTE VALUE  
    
     Availability         SUNWgnu-coreutils 
    
     Interface Stability  Uncommitted       
    

NOTES
     Source    for    GNU    coreutils    is     available     on
     http:/opensolaris.org.





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