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Re: printf '\x' exit status is 0
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: printf '\x' exit status is 0 |
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Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:35:56 -0400 |
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Poor Yorick wrote:
> (on my debian system, bashbug reports for bash 2.05)
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> printf status is 0 but /usr/bin/printf is 1. Is this the expected behavior?
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> denada@debian:~$ bash3
> denada@debian:~$ bash3 --version
> GNU bash, version 3.00.16(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu)
> Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> denada@debian:~$ printf '\x'
> bash3: printf: missing hex digit for \x
> \xdenada@debian:~$ echo $?
> 0
Bash treats unrecognized backslash escapes as characters to be printed
and does not consider them an error. \x without any hex digits doesn't
have any special meaning, though, since it's probably not what's
intended, bash prints a warning.
Chet
> denada@debian:~$ /usr/bin/printf '\x'
> /usr/bin/printf: missing hexadecimal number in escape
> denada@debian:~$ echo $?
> 1
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