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

>

Dear sir,
Hi, I cannot provide you a reason why its happening  however I can provide you
with a solution
use the Echo command, I have yet to find a reason not to use Echo  versus
printf , this
stuff about the -e not being crossplatform is true. butif you are trying to
format a string
put it inside qoutes "  % this / that \ this still works - that too" if you
need tabs use the native
escape sequence \t all these normal escape characters are compatible with
echo. Without
getting into a discussion which is better and what you should use.
one thing to note if using the "\" in any of your output  if the \(char)
coresponds to a
valid escape sequence ie "\to_the_fight" will come out as
"    o_the_fight" as the \t is a valid escape sequence. but if you put "\
to_the_fight"
will come out as "\ to_the_fight" as will "\tto_the_fight"
I have tested these escape sequences with echo on solaris aix and redhat and
windows
nt/98/mileneum.  and all work perfectly withthe echo command.
a few i use, for those that dont know any, \n=next line \t=tab  and dont
forget the double qoutes
"\n" is not the same as \n


hope this helps
Kenneth Ray.






>
> Message: 5
> From: [email protected]
> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 07:25:21 -0500
> Subject: RE: [netsaint] /usr/bin/printf: %,: invalid directive
> TO: [email protected], [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]
>
> I ran into a problem similar to this with disk space percentages.  If
> the return from your command has a '%' in it, printf doesn't handle it
> correctly unless it's a double '%%'.  I started using 'echo -e' instead
> of 'printf', however someone on this list suggested re-formating the
> string to printf:
>
> command[host-notify-by-email]=/usr/bin/printf "***** NetSaint
> *****\n\nNotification Type: %s\nHost:%s\nState: %s\nAddress: %s\nInfo:
> %s\n\nDate/Time: %s\n", $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$, $HOSTNAME$, $HOSTSTATE$,
> $HOSTADDRESS$, $OUTPUT$, $DATETIME$ | /bin/mail -s 'Host$HOSTSTATE$
> alert for $HOSTNAME$!' $CONTACTEMAIL$
>
> Stanley G. Martin
> Sprint - ISS Enterprise App/Decision Support Services
> [email protected]
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: andres [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 8:46 PM
> To: Stanley.Hopcroft
> Cc: netsaint-users
> Subject: Re: [netsaint] /usr/bin/printf: %,: invalid directive
>
>
> Thanks ! Must be ping then, since it returns the % packet drop.
>
> So do you know if STDER can be piped out to /dev/null in the email
> command?
>
> I guess I can try it ;)
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stanley Hopcroft" <[email protected]>
> To: "Andres L. Figari" <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 4:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [netsaint] /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.
> >
> > --
> >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Stanley Hopcroft
> >
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