From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: padding.
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 12:10:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5a98b872-30c9-1d20-c219-ed84df7845b4@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170212061455.GA4267@fujitsu.shahaf.local2>
On 11/02/17 10:14 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> printf is not a reserved word (it isn't part of the syntax), however,
> it _is_ builtin to the shell:
>
> % which printf
> printf: shell built-in command
>
> If printf weren't a builtin, it wouldn't have been able to grow the
> «-v variablename» flag.
I have a sort of built-in thinking that 'direct syntax' (if that means
anything) is always better. Dunno, maybe because I presume that
commands are external, another hangover from DOS. I think that if I
'don't need' printf then I shouldn't use it. Scottish frugality?
Probably I should try to avoid that thinking as baseless. As to the
variable, I was sorta pondering that and of course the answer is just
as you give it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-12 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-11 3:15 padding Ray Andrews
2017-02-11 19:04 ` padding Bart Schaefer
2017-02-12 1:54 ` padding Ray Andrews
2017-02-12 2:11 ` padding Ray Andrews
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2017-02-12 6:14 ` padding Daniel Shahaf
2017-02-12 20:10 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2017-02-13 21:58 ` padding Ray Andrews
[not found] ` <CAHYJk3SKvOSOBgK6GTVnbqL1mJ7mnwchoAbVKjjNRE8FjFWNYQ@mail.gmail.com>
2017-02-14 5:51 ` padding Ray Andrews
[not found] <0befdb38-eaa5-6388-a3fe-58b1a73834b7__26816.8318471455$1486784821$gmane$org@eastlink.ca>
2017-02-11 6:29 ` padding Daniel Shahaf
2017-02-11 18:43 ` padding Ray Andrews
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