Re: Correction in GNU Bash Manual HTML version

Chet Ramey <[email protected]> Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:34:41 -0400

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On 3/14/26 9:09 AM, Anshuman Khanna wrote:

> In Bash Builtin Commands
> <https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Bash-Builtin-Commands>
> section, in the subsection talking about *printf*, there is the following
> paragraph:
> %q
> 
> Causes printf to output the corresponding argument in a format that can be
> reused as shell input. %q and %QP use the ANSI-C quoting style (see ANSI-C

Thanks for the report.

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