both posix awk and the one true awk have printf: https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk/blob/2bab10b60b3f4d3bbefdcb60410655f317d1a452/awk.1#L189 https://github.com/o

both posix awk and the one true awk have printf: https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk/blob/2bab10b60b3f4d3bbefdcb60410655f317d1a452/awk.1#L189 https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk/blob/2bab10b60b3f4d3bbefdc... (that said, I usually use awk's ability to print through pipelines given in the awk script itself)