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- PRINTF(1L) PRINTF(1L)
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- printf - format and print data
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- p✓pr✓ri✓in✓nt✓tf✓f format [argument...]
- p✓pr✓ri✓in✓nt✓tf✓f {--help,--version}
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- This manual page documents the GNU version of p✓pr✓ri✓in✓nt✓tf✓f.
- p✓pr✓ri✓in✓nt✓tf✓f prints the _✓f_✓o_✓r_✓m_✓a_✓t string, interpreting `%' direc-
- tives and `\' escapes in the same way as the C `printf'
- function. The _✓f_✓o_✓r_✓m_✓a_✓t argument is re-used as many times as
- necessary to convert all of the given arguments.
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- p✓pr✓ri✓in✓nt✓tf✓f interprets `\0ooo' as a an octal number (`ooo' is 0
- to 3 digits) specifying a character to print, and `\xhhh'
- as a hexadecimal number (`hhh' is 1 to 3 digits) specify-
- ing a character to print. It has an additional escape,
- `\c', which causes p✓pr✓ri✓in✓nt✓tf✓f to produce no further output,
- and an additional directive, `%b', which prints its argu-
- ment string with `\' escapes interpreted the way they are
- in the _✓f_✓o_✓r_✓m_✓a_✓t string.
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- O✓OP✓PT✓TI✓IO✓ON✓NS✓S
- When GNU p✓pr✓ri✓in✓nt✓tf✓f is invoked with exactly one argument, the
- following options are recognized:
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- _✓-_✓-_✓h_✓e_✓l_✓p Print a usage message on standard output and exit
- successfully.
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- _✓-_✓-_✓v_✓e_✓r_✓s_✓i_✓o_✓n
- Print version information on standard output then
- exit successfully.
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- FSF GNU Shell Utilities 1
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