Re: printf "%c" behavious

[G. Vamsee Krishna]

Thanks. It's working fine now. "%c" 65 is giving 'A' :)
What I still didn't get it, is this a bug or a feature left intentionally? 
In the later case, I think the man/info pages should be changed to reflect 
it.



On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:

>    I deleted it and added /usr/local/bin to my path. `printf "%c" 65'
>    is still outputting '6' but `/usr/local/bin/printf "%c" 65' is
>    giving 'A'. Any idea what's going wrong?
> 
> Shell builtin probobly.
> 
> If you are using GNU bash then the following will disable the printf
> builtin:
> 
> enable -n printf
> 

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