Re: /usr/bin/printf(1) not POSIX.2 compliant

[tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost]

On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 10:31:18PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
>     Date:        Sun, 21 Jul 2019 16:15:05 +0200
>     From:        tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost
>     Message-ID:  <20190721141505.GA4079%polynum.com@localhost>
> 
>   | For safety, in my scripts, I simply circumvent by a
>   | leading "%c" or "\055"
> 
> I'd suggest %s (with a '' arg) (even %.0s to make it blatant)
> as a clearer way to show what is happening
> 
> 	printf %s---\\n ''

You are right: the whole result is clearer than "deporting" a dash as
an argument. I will follow this pattern.

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