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NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | AUTHOR | REPORTING BUGS | COPYRIGHT | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON |
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PRINTF(1) User Commands PRINTF(1)
printf - format and print data
printf FORMAT [ARGUMENT]...
printf OPTION
Print ARGUMENT(s) according to FORMAT, or execute according to
OPTION:
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
FORMAT controls the output as in C printf. Interpreted sequences
are:
\" double quote
\\ backslash
\a alert (BEL)
\b backspace
\c produce no further output
\e escape
\f form feed
\n new line
\r carriage return
\t horizontal tab
\v vertical tab
\NNN byte with octal value NNN (1 to 3 digits)
\xHH byte with hexadecimal value HH (1 to 2 digits)
\uHHHH Unicode (ISO/IEC 10646) character with hex value HHHH (4
digits)
\UHHHHHHHH
Unicode character with hex value HHHHHHHH (8 digits)
%% a single %
%b ARGUMENT as a string with '\' escapes interpreted, except
that octal escapes are of the form \0 or \0NNN
%q ARGUMENT is printed in a format that can be reused as
shell input, escaping non-printable characters with the
proposed POSIX $'' syntax.
and all C format specifications ending with one of diouxXfeEgGcs,
with ARGUMENTs converted to proper type first. Variable widths
are handled.
Your shell may have its own version of printf, which usually
supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your
shell's documentation for details about the options it supports.
Written by David MacKenzie.
GNU coreutils online help:
<https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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Copyright © 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+:
GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute
it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
printf(3)
Full documentation
<https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/printf>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) printf invocation'
This page is part of the coreutils (basic file, shell and text
manipulation utilities) project. Information about the project
can be found at ⟨http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/⟩. If you
have a bug report for this manual page, see
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GNU coreutils 9.5 March 2024 PRINTF(1)
Pages that refer to this page: bash(1), echo(1), git-sh-i18n(1), ps(1), printf(3)
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