01-11-2011
Well, how does the shell know which line feeds are real?
You might write a standard (local shared), postprocessing, sql tool (wrapper) for all to use, and make it encode embedded linefeeds in a printf friendly form, while escaping any printf metacharacters in the flow. It seems unlikely people will enter '\n' or '%' in their text, but with escapes, it would stay '\n' and '%'! It can trim and divert headers, counts, dividers and messages at the same time. It will be like JDBC/ODBC or ESQL, but crude and more work. Why not step up to a RDBMS tool or existing scripting extension for your RDBMS, sybperl or such?
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PRINTF(1) User Commands PRINTF(1)
NAME
printf - format and print data
SYNOPSIS
printf FORMAT [ARGUMENT]...
printf OPTION
DESCRIPTION
Print ARGUMENT(s) according to FORMAT, or execute according to OPTION:
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
FORMAT controls the output as in C printf. Interpreted sequences are:
" double quote
\ backslash
a alert (BEL)
backspace
c produce no further output
e escape
f form feed
new line
carriage return
horizontal tab
v vertical tab
NNN byte with octal value NNN (1 to 3 digits)
xHH byte with hexadecimal value HH (1 to 2 digits)
uHHHH Unicode (ISO/IEC 10646) character with hex value HHHH (4 digits)
UHHHHHHHH
Unicode character with hex value HHHHHHHH (8 digits)
%% a single %
%b ARGUMENT as a string with '' escapes interpreted, except that octal escapes are of the form or NNN
%q ARGUMENT is printed in a format that can be reused as shell input, escaping non-printable characters with the proposed POSIX $''
syntax.
and all C format specifications ending with one of diouxXfeEgGcs, with ARGUMENTs converted to proper type first. Variable widths are han-
dled.
NOTE: your shell may have its own version of printf, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's
documentation for details about the options it supports.
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
printf(3)
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/printf>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) printf invocation'
GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 PRINTF(1)