From: Eric Cook <llua@gmx.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Printf builtin missing v flag support
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 09:05:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5685362C.2070605@gmx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <568533DD.7030403@gmx.com>
On 12/31/2015 08:55 AM, Eric Cook wrote:
> On 12/31/2015 02:16 AM, Starms, William Albert (MU-Student) wrote:
>
>> Is this just a feature that nobody noticed/cared about, or was there a reason for its omission? I couldn’t find anything on the subject, but I may just be bad at googling. I know printf can just be run in a subshell and captured, but forking for this seems like overkill, I say without any knowledge of the zsh backend.
>
> You can avoid the overhead of a subshell with something like
> % print -zf 'hello %s\n' foo;read -zr var; typeset -p var
> typeset var=foo
>
Copied and pasted from two different examples, but the code does indeed yield `hello foo', not just `foo'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-31 14:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <etPan.5684d3d1.74f2df6b.31ec@Ganymede>
2015-12-31 7:16 ` Starms, William Albert (MU-Student)
2015-12-31 10:44 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-12-31 18:48 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-01-01 21:26 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2016-01-01 21:35 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2016-01-01 21:52 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-01-01 22:12 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2016-01-02 4:17 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-01-02 7:17 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2016-01-02 21:42 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-01-02 21:54 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-01-04 5:50 ` Jun T.
2016-01-04 19:22 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-01-01 21:57 ` Eric Cook
2016-01-01 22:14 ` Eric Cook
2015-12-31 13:55 ` Eric Cook
2015-12-31 14:05 ` Eric Cook [this message]
2016-01-01 18:45 ` Stephane Chazelas
2016-01-01 21:17 ` Bart Schaefer
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