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| author |   schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2014-10-22 21:00:05 +0000 |
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| committer | schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2014-10-22 21:00:05 +0000 |
| commit | f787a2cb16ac6ee074c2eae93c024c6fcada0708 (patch) | |
| tree | 703312920443c32c33901d80bb6c4dd8baf20ebc /usr.bin/printf/printf.1 | |
| parent | Replace abs(3) with llabs(3). (diff) | |
| download | wireguard-openbsd-f787a2cb16ac6ee074c2eae93c024c6fcada0708.tar.xz wireguard-openbsd-f787a2cb16ac6ee074c2eae93c024c6fcada0708.zip | |
document the special \c escape sequence that can only be used with %b;
gap found by guenther@ following a question asked
by Frank Brodbeck <fab at split dash brain dot de>;
while here, sort escape sequences,
this part of the patch from Frank Brodbeck;
ok guenther@
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/printf/printf.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/printf/printf.1 | 17 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 b/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 index 6122b6d17ed..e8e9850b109 100644 --- a/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 +++ b/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: printf.1,v 1.27 2014/05/25 07:36:36 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: printf.1,v 1.28 2014/10/22 21:00:05 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990 The Regents of the University of California. .\" All rights reserved. @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ .\" .\" from: @(#)printf.1 5.11 (Berkeley) 7/24/91 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: May 25 2014 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: October 22 2014 $ .Dt PRINTF 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -80,12 +80,12 @@ Character escape sequences are in backslash notation as defined in The characters and their meanings are as follows: .Pp .Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact -.It Cm \ee -Write an <escape> character. .It Cm \ea Write a <bell> character. .It Cm \eb Write a <backspace> character. +.It Cm \ee +Write an <escape> character. .It Cm \ef Write a <form-feed> character. .It Cm \en @@ -322,6 +322,15 @@ respectively. Characters from the string .Ar argument are printed with backslash-escape sequences expanded. +If the +.Ar argument +contains the special escape sequence +.Cm \ec , +this escape sequence is discarded together with +all remaining characters in this argument, all further arguments, +and all remaining characters in the +.Ar format +string. .It Cm c The first character of .Ar argument |