Re: printf $variable inside initial parenthesis or use %s?

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/11/23 3:26 AM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:

> > My guess, since Bash builtin printf was designed for a drop-in POSIX
> > replacement for echo
>
> Where did you get that idea?

Not a "drop-in" replacement, but

"The printf utility can be used portably to emulate any of the traditional
behaviors of the echo utility as follows (assuming that IFS has its
standard value or is unset)"

from

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/echo.html

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