Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 19:27:40 +0000 (UTC) From: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r212374 - head/usr.bin/printf Message-ID: <201009091927.o89JReXm022426@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: obrien Date: Thu Sep 9 19:27:40 2010 New Revision: 212374 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/212374 Log: Note bug in trying to printf(1) things like: '-%s\n' "foo" Modified: head/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 Modified: head/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 ============================================================================== --- head/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 Thu Sep 9 18:51:50 2010 (r212373) +++ head/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 Thu Sep 9 19:27:40 2010 (r212374) @@ -355,3 +355,10 @@ Multibyte characters are not recognized 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 .
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