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Where would I get a good explanation for all the possibities when using the "printf" unix commmand.
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Unix I think. I want to use it with CygWin.
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man sprintf.
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Do you have any info about how to use this command.
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The information you need is in the manpages of your shell.
With recent versions of bash you may try help printf.
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Maybe if you gave an example of what you want to do with printf, we can give you an example of how to do it... there are far too many options to just describe them all to you here.
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