shell printf - a sensible solution
John Andrew Rosauer
johnr at metro.oz
Mon Mar 16 14:12:21 AEST 1987
Below is a shell printf NOT written in C.
People should spend a few minutes thinking to see if something can be
done using available utilities rather than immediately writing
thousands of lines of C. It's wasting someone's money.
###########################################################
if [ $# -lt 1 ]
then
echo >&2 "Usage: printf format [ arg ...]"
exit 1
fi
x="\"$1\""
shift
for i
do
x="$x,\"$i\""
done
awk "BEGIN { printf $x; exit }"
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