Well, echo sometimes does odd things on certain shells -- some expand escape sequences, some don't, some support options, some don't -- but printf "%s" "string" is pretty much guaranteed the same everywhere. If you know you'll always be using the "right" shell it doesn't really matter.
What goes wrong 1% of the time? 99% success rate is terrific for an exam, but horrible for a program.
I don't know if it'll be faster but it'll be simpler to let echo print to stdout than to redirect into &7 99 times:
As for logging, data belongs in stdout, human-readable errors belong in stderr, don't mix the two.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
// this function calculates the volume of a Cylinder
int main(void)
{
int r; // radius
int h; // height
double M_PI; // pi
int pOne = pow (r, 2);
// get user input of radius and height
printf ("Enter your... (3 Replies)
I want to print a colored line using bash. I want to print:
Smtp status
where "Smtp status" will be in yellow and will be in green.
Thanks. (2 Replies)
Hi ,
I wonder if in java I can pipe the below output of the printf into a variable:
System.out.printf(" This is a test %s\n", myVariable);
I want to keep the output of the printf command to create my history array.
Thanks. (2 Replies)
#!/usr/bin/ksh
var1="Hi World"
var2="Morning"
var3=$(echo "$var1" \n "$var2")
echo $var3
var3=$(printf "$var1 \n $var2")
echo $var3
Output
Any way to get
in my $var3 ? (7 Replies)
printf "%X\n" "A"
41
printf "%X\n" "2"
2
Expected 32 (not 2).
Is there a "printf" which will output the hexadecimal value of a numeric character? (9 Replies)
This may be little confusing. I have Script1, which pulls data from the system and creates another script(lets say script2). While I run script1 I need to add printf/echo statements for script2, so that when I run script2 I see those statement.
eg: script1 765
printf " display frame-$1 timeoffset... (2 Replies)
Legends,
I want to send the output to a webpage after execution of script.
the webpage layout will be something like below
HOSTNAME at <TIME>
--------------------
ProcessName1 <some text>
ProcessName2 <some text>
.....
.....
Pls help how i will approach... (1 Reply)
Hi All;
I try to create a excel like table with headers and some fields containing values, other long and complex mathematic formulas.
I have some header like : Name Formula Value True/False
Under name column, they are some formula names, formula column some long mathematic formulas... (9 Replies)
Hello
I want to check whether certain arguments were passed to the script, and when those are, not doing a log entry.
If those arguments are not passed, always do a log entry (*new call*).
What currently i have is this:
echo "${@}"|grep -q \\- || \
tui-log -e "$LOG" "\r---- New call $$... (4 Replies)
Hello,
For some reason i dont remember, i currently believe (but beeing unsure) that printf is available on more diffrent systems (unix, bsd, linux, ??) than echo is.
Could someone please enlighten me, whether this is true or not?
Thank you
PS:
I just found pages about the diffrences of... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: sea
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
print
print(1) User Commands print(1)NAME
print - shell built-in function to output characters to the screen or window
SYNOPSIS
ksh
print [ -Rnprsu [n]] [arg...]
DESCRIPTION
ksh
The shell output mechanism. With no flags or with flag - or -, the arguments are printed on standard output as described by echo(1).
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-n suppresses new-line from being added to the output.
-R
-r (raw mode) ignore the escape conventions of echo. The -R option will print all subsequent arguments and options other than
-n.
-p causes the arguments to be written onto the pipe of the process spawned with |& instead of standard output.
-s causes the arguments to be written onto the history file instead of standard output.
-u [ n ] flag can be used to specify a one digit file descriptor unit number n on which the output will be placed. The default is 1.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful operation.
>0 Output file is not open for writing.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO echo(1), ksh(1), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 print(1)