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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to check arguments in shell??? Post 302761665 by Corona688 on Saturday 26th of January 2013 10:44:05 AM
Old 01-26-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by jlliagre
should be:
Code:
printf "%s\n%s" "$makefile" "$target"

When commandline printf runs out of arguments in the command string, it repeats the command string. Try this:

Code:
printf "%s\n" a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

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