I'm not sure if this is a bug, but
printf "%c" 49
prints
4
instead of what I'd expect, which is
1
(ASCII 49)
Taken literally, I suppose this could be construed as "converting the
argument to the correct type", since the argument 49 is really a string,
but is seems a bit perverse, and it's certainly not what a C programmer
(like me!) would expect by analogy with
printf("%c", 49);
This happens with /usr/bin/printf, and also with bash printf on a number
of systems which made me wonder whether I'm just being stupid...
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