source: trunk/essentials/app-shells/bash/tests/printf.tests@ 3506

LC_ALL=C
LC_NUMERIC=C

# these should output error messages -- the format is required
printf
printf --

# these should output nothing
printf ""
printf -- ""

# in the future this may mean to put the output into VAR, but for
# now it is an error
# 2005-03-15 no longer an error
unset var
printf -v var "%10d" $RANDOM
echo ${#var}

# this should expand escape sequences in the format string, nothing else
printf "\tone\n"

# this should not cut off output after the \c
printf "one\ctwo\n"

# and unrecognized backslash escapes should have the backslash preserverd
printf "4\.2\n"

printf "no newline " ; printf "now newline\n"

# %% -> %
printf "%%\n"

# this was a bug caused by pre-processing the string for backslash escapes
# before doing the `%' format processing -- all versions before bash-2.04
printf "\045" ; echo
printf "\045d\n"

# simple character output
printf "%c\n" ABCD

# test simple string output
printf "%s\n" unquoted

# test quoted string output
printf "%s %q\n" unquoted quoted
printf "%s%10q\n" unquoted quoted

printf "%q\n" 'this&that'

# make sure the format string is reused to use up arguments
printf "%d " 1 2 3 4 5; printf "\n"

# make sure that extra format characters get null arguments
printf "%s %d %d %d\n" onestring

printf "%s %d %u %4.2f\n" onestring

printf -- "--%s %s--\n" 4.2 ''
printf -- "--%s %s--\n" 4.2

# test %b escapes

# 8 is a non-octal digit, so the `81' should be output
printf -- "--%b--\n" '\n\081'

printf -- "--%b--\n" '\t\0101'
printf -- "--%b--\n" '\t\101'

# these should all display `A7'
echo -e "\1017"
echo -e "\x417"

printf "%b\n" '\01017'
printf "%b\n" '\1017'
printf "%b\n" '\x417'

printf -- "--%b--\n" '\"abcd\"'
printf -- "--%b--\n" "\'abcd\'"