Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 06:38:44 GMT From: Garrett Cooper <gcooper@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/145748: hexdump(1) %s format qualifier broken Message-ID: <201004160638.o3G6citl013729@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201004160640.o3G6e1OE076031@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 145748
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: hexdump(1) %s format qualifier broken
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: high
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Apr 16 06:40:00 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Garrett Cooper
>Release: 9-CURRENT
>Organization:
Cisco Systems, Inc.
>Environment:
>Description:
According to the manpage...
o A byte count or field precision is required for each ``s'' con-
version character (unlike the fprintf(3) default which prints
the entire string if the precision is unspecified).
.. this should just work. It doesn't however:
$ echo "$(jot -b a 1024)" | hexdump -e '"%4s\n"'
hexdump: %s: requires a precision or a byte count
>How-To-Repeat:
echo "$(jot -b a 1024)" | hexdump -e '"%4s\n"'
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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