Stephane CHAZELAS wrote:
> (what's "whatwhell" by the way? or do you mean Scan Mascheck's
> "whatshell"?)
Correct, sticky fingers ;-)
Jörg
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2020-02-03 11:43:38 +0100, Joerg Schilling:
[...]
> > $ /usr/xpg4/bin/sh -c 'type printf'
> > printf is a shell builtin
>
> This does not apply to OpenSolaris, but on OpenSolaris, this was closed
> source
> as ksh88 is not available under OSS license.
>
> This also does not apply to Oracle
Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> 2020-01-24 15:14:48 +0100, Joerg Schilling:
> > printf "Hello World %2$s %1$s\\n" 1 2
> [...]
> > mksha ksh88 clone
> [...]
>
> ksh88 had no printf builtin.
OK, this is a mstake that frequently happens because most shells have a builtin
printf.
2020-01-24 15:14:48 +0100, Joerg Schilling:
[...]
> > > printf "$(gettext 'Hello World %2$d %1$d')\\n" 1 2
> > >
> > > to be able to control the order of the output of arguments in a way that
> > > is
> > > specific to the target language. ...
> >
> > > BTW: this extension is also available
