Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes: > Thanks for the report. POSIX does not require printf(1) to support > argument swapping: > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/printf.html > > So this is technically not a bug. However, if you would like to submit a > patch that adds this as an extension, we will probably consider it for > coreutils' printf. If you want the bash builtin to also make this > improvement, then bring that to the attention of the bug-bash list.
It looks like zsh already supports this extension, so there is prior art, which makes it all the more justifiable to add this to coreutils: $ zsh -c 'printf %1\$s hi' hi -- Eric Blake _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
