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| author | jilles <jilles@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-04-25 19:15:58 +0000 |
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| committer | jilles <jilles@FreeBSD.org> | 2011-04-25 19:15:58 +0000 |
| commit | e9f95ffefb85c41251ae3400a0cd59d46d241f60 (patch) | |
| tree | 8bfce7683fe0bf86a48c066402015c2fee6cb229 /usr.bin/printf | |
| parent | 86e3f5348168832abee59d682ab3ffa505f8069d (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-e9f95ffefb85c41251ae3400a0cd59d46d241f60.zip FreeBSD-src-e9f95ffefb85c41251ae3400a0cd59d46d241f60.tar.gz | |
printf(1): Move non-bugs from the BUGS section to a new section CAVEATS.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/printf')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/printf/printf.1 | 20 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 b/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 index ddfdcfc..56c6855 100644 --- a/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 +++ b/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 @@ -337,6 +337,16 @@ command appeared in It is modeled after the standard library function, .Xr printf 3 . +.Sh CAVEATS +.Tn ANSI +hexadecimal character constants were deliberately not provided. +.Pp +Trying to print a dash ("-") as the first character causes +.Nm +to interpret the dash as a program argument. +.Nm -- +must be used before +.Ar format . .Sh BUGS Since the floating point numbers are translated from .Tn ASCII @@ -348,9 +358,6 @@ The .Cm L modifier may produce additional precision, depending on the hardware platform.) .Pp -.Tn ANSI -hexadecimal character constants were deliberately not provided. -.Pp The escape sequence \e000 is the string terminator. When present in the argument for the .Cm b @@ -360,10 +367,3 @@ Multibyte characters are not recognized in format strings (this is only a problem if .Ql % can appear inside a multibyte character). -.Pp -Trying to print a dash ("-") as the first character causes -.Nm -to interpet the dash as a program argument. -.Nm -- -must be used before -.Ar format . |
