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Package: coreutils
Version: 5.2.1-2
from man page:
FORMAT controls the output as in C printf. Interpreted sequences are:
[...]
\c produce no further output
but executing
printf "one\n\cword\n"
produces
one
\cword
interestingly, on our freebsd system the man page says the same thing
and their binary isn't acknowledging the \c either. same source?
using libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22
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printf in coreutils 5.2.1-2.1 produces this output:
>/usr/bin/printf "one\n\cword\n"
one
You were probably running:
>printf "one\n\cword\n"
one
\cword
which is the version of printf from your shell rather than from
coreutils. The version of printf in bash handles the case differently,
but also gives the expected output if you use printf "%b" "one\n\cword\n"
Mike Stone
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