svn commit: r215520 - in head: bin/sh share/man/man1
usr.bin/printf
Alexey Dokuchaev
danfe at FreeBSD.org
Fri Nov 19 15:21:27 UTC 2010
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:56:13PM +0000, Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
> I do not want to encourage people to write fragile and non-portable echo
> commands by making printf much slower than echo.
True.
> Side effect: printf is now always the builtin version (which behaves
> identically to /usr/bin/printf) and cannot be overridden via PATH (except
> via the undocumented %builtin mechanism).
Are there any plans to document it?
./danfe
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