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Your angst is misdirected, unless you can specifically illustrate how the current implementations of echo are POSIX compliant. The printf command means "print,
by D9u 14y ago
Your angst is misdirected, unless you can specifically illustrate how the current implementations of echo are POSIX compliant.
The printf command means "print, formatted," where "format" refers to "positional parameters," and this functionality is not present in echo.
Signed, a Unix aficionado.
- segmondy 14y agothey person asking this question must not know why (format ) is greater than printf. http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/a-few-format-recipes.html http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/a-few-format-recipes.html