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author | jilles <jilles@FreeBSD.org> | 2010-11-19 12:56:13 +0000 |
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committer | jilles <jilles@FreeBSD.org> | 2010-11-19 12:56:13 +0000 |
commit | 129853101d5707b7d18f28f39e748fa65a36add2 (patch) | |
tree | bf15bc2b264e5ca2469d76c04865a14c1e99127c /bin/sh/eval.c | |
parent | 7be275d6a786ef414ab769fb1b61fa9a4b041f4d (diff) | |
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sh: Add printf builtin.
This was removed in 2001 but I think it is appropriate to add it back:
* I do not want to encourage people to write fragile and non-portable echo
commands by making printf much slower than echo.
* Recent versions of Autoconf use it a lot.
* Almost no software still wants to support systems that do not have
printf(1) at all.
* In many other shells printf is already a builtin.
Side effect: printf is now always the builtin version (which behaves
identically to /usr/bin/printf) and cannot be overridden via PATH (except
via the undocumented %builtin mechanism).
Code size increases about 5K on i386. Embedded folks might want to replace
/usr/bin/printf with a hard link to /usr/bin/alias.
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