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coreutils package

  1. Bug #225637
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 225637

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John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote :

I am able to confirm this on Intrepid and Hardy

gnomefreak@Development:~$ type printf
printf is a shell builtin
gnomefreak@Development:~$ /usr/bin/printf %c 65
6gnomefreak@Development:~$ printf %c 65
6gnomefreak@Development:~$
awk 'BEGIN {printf("%c", 65)}' </dev/null
Agnomefreak@Development:~$

gnomefreak@Development:~$ printf \\x41
Agnomefreak@Development:~$