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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 05:32:06 -0600 (MDT)
From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
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Subject: Re: The  printf  function
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On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Gerald S. Stoller wrote:

> I executed the following  printf  (in a  Korn shell  command-line)
> 		printf  't %2$s .\n'  3  55
> and got the following response
> 	printf: illegal format character $
>
> The following is an excerpt from the  man-3  page for  printf .

'man 3 printf' shows the man page for the C library function printf. 
'man 1 printf' shows the man page for the printf *program*, which does 
not appear to support the $ format string.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA