Manual page for PRINTF(1L)
printf - format and print data
SYNOPSIS
printf
format [argument...]
printf
{--help,--version}
DESCRIPTION
This manual page
documents the GNU version of
printf.
printf
prints the
format
string, interpreting `%' directives and `\' escapes in the same way
as the C `printf' function. The
format
argument is re-used as many times as necessary to convert all of the
given arguments.
printf
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) specifying a
character to print. It has an additional escape, `\c', which causes
printf
to produce no further output, and an additional directive, `%b',
which prints its argument string with `\' escapes interpreted the way
they are in the
format
string.
OPTIONS
When GNU
printf
is invoked with exactly one argument, the following options are recognized:
- --help
-
Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.
- --version
-
Print version information on standard output then exit successfully.
Created by unroff & hp-tools.
© by Hans-Peter Bischof. All Rights Reserved (1997).
Last modified 21/April/97
