On 2008-07-08 17:47:01 +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> Interestingly, the wording of the man page is quite close to the
> POSIX.1 spec:
>     %      Matches a single '%' character; no conversion or assignment
>            occurs. The complete conversion specification shall be %% .

IIRC, there have been discussions in the austin group mailing-list
about that.

> I prefer to be more explicit.  For the description of %% I changed
> the text to:
>
>     No conversion is done (but initial white space characters are
>     discarded), and assignment does not occur.
>
> okay?

Yes, this is fine.

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