Fantastic!
Thanks!
On 22/07/2026 13:05, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 20/07/2026 17:10, Pádraig Brady wrote:
The "see also" has a reference to printf(3),
which you can drill down to directly depending on you man page viewer,
or view directly with `man 3 printf`.
But I agree we should show that reference directly in the text.
We need to be careful not to repeat too much info from the (large)
printf(3) page,
but I also agree that we could provide a little more info here.
I'll look at:
Using our recently improved man table formatting to present a
conversion summary.
Including at least mentioning that flags are supported.
Also an EXAMPLES section would be useful here I think to show
supported combinations.
I'll apply the attached later, which adds:
CONVERSION Shell format example Output
%s '[%10s]' 'left pad' [ left pad]
%s '[%-10s]' 'right pad' [right pad ]
%c %s '%c %.3s' un unibyte u uni
%d %i "%'d ;%i04i" 1234 '-1' 1,234 ;-001
%o '%#o' $((2#110100100)) 0644
%u '%u' 0xFFFFFFFF 4294967295
%x '0x%08x' 11259375 0x00abcdef
%a %f '%1$a %1$f' 0.0009765625 0x8p-13 0.000977
%e %f '%1$e %1$f' 123.45678 1.234568e+02 123.456789
%g '%1$g %1$.2g' 1.2345678e3 1234.57 1.2e+03
%b '%b' 'food\bbar' foobar
%q '%q ' 'a' ';b' $'c\n' a ';b' 'c'$'\n'
Marking this as done.
cheers,
Padraig
