Re: /usr/bin/printf: %,: invalid directive

Dear Sir,

There is a bit of a gotcha with printf in that if it's arguments contain 
the '%' character they may not be interpreted correctly.

This shows the sort of trouble

tsitc> printf '10%'
printf: illegal format character U

Your choices are :-

 . try and deeal with the plugin output containing '%' eg convert it to 
%%

 . replace echo and live with much poorer formatting (in general).


On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 03:54:50PM -0800, Andres L. Figari wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Dug throught the mailing list emails, I could swear I remeber this but can't
> find it :(
> 
> I get a strange little error
> 
> /usr/bin/printf: %,: invalid directive
> 
> Netsaint works great, but at times, while in the machine and working with
> it, it prints oput on the screen  LOL
> 
> Anyone know what this is about?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Andres
> 

Another problem is that plugin putput cannot contain quote characters 
"'" since they can't be escaped to /bin/sh.

Yours sincerely.

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