A NOTE has been added to this issue. ====================================================================== https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1774 ====================================================================== Reported By: eblake Assigned To: ====================================================================== Project: Issue 8 drafts Issue ID: 1774 Category: Base Definitions and Headers Type: Omission Severity: Editorial Priority: normal Status: New Name: Eric Blake Organization: Red Hat User Reference: ebb.file format Section: XBD 5 File Format Notation Page Number: 114 Line Number: 3581 Final Accepted Text: ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 2023-08-31 17:45 UTC Last Modified: 2024-05-23 14:38 UTC ====================================================================== Summary: Support ' <apostrophe> as a format specifier flag character in utilities ====================================================================== Relationships ID Summary ---------------------------------------------------------------------- related to 0001771 support or reserve %q as printf-utility... ======================================================================
---------------------------------------------------------------------- (0006796) geoffclare (manager) - 2024-05-23 14:38 https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1774#c6796 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I searched the (Issue 8) troff source for cross-references to File Format Notation and the only ones where it is used to specify how a utility processes a format string are in: awk printf statement pax -o listopt=format printf utility Since printf and awk have already been mentioned, the only new one to consider is pax. I could see it being a useful feature in pax for things like: pax -v -o listopt=".... %'(size)i ...." Issue History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 2023-08-31 17:45 eblake New Issue 2023-08-31 17:45 eblake Name => Eric Blake 2023-08-31 17:45 eblake Organization => Red Hat 2023-08-31 17:45 eblake User Reference => ebb.file format 2023-08-31 17:45 eblake Section => XBD 5 File Format Notation 2023-08-31 17:45 eblake Page Number => 114 2023-08-31 17:45 eblake Line Number => 3581 2023-08-31 17:46 eblake Relationship added related to 0001771 2024-05-23 14:38 geoffclare Note Added: 0006796 ======================================================================
