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From: Robert Eckardt <roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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Subject: bin/1673: sh's printf is broken
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>Number:         1673
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       sh's printf is broken
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Sep 23 17:50:02 PDT 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Robert Eckardt
>Organization:
Home sweet home
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386
>Environment:

	FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE as from CD

>Description:

	Number conversion of sh's printf is broken.
	sh's printf is meant as a replacement for the external program
	/usr/bin/printf for efficiency.
        For "%04d" leading spaces are printed instead of leading zeros.
        For "%4.2g" the letter 'g' is printed instead of the FP number.

>How-To-Repeat:

	> sh
	$ printf "%04d\n" 1
	   1
	$ /usr/bin/printf "%04d\n" 1
	0001
	$ printf "%4.2g\n" 1.23
	g
	$ /usr/bin/printf "%4.2g\n" 1.23              
	 1.2
	$ 


>Fix:
	
	"To know the error means to know the solution."
	As a temporary fix use /usr/bin/printf via alias:
	alias printf=/usr/bin/printf

	$ printf "%4.2f\n" 1.2
	f
	$ alias printf=/usr/bin/printf
	$ printf "%4.2f\n" 1.2
	1.20
	$ 

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: