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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to echo a <tab> space? Post 53005 by laila63 on Thursday 1st of July 2004 06:01:54 PM
Old 07-01-2004
i'm running this on Linux actually. Thanks for the suggestion to use printf. This script needs to be able to execute across platforms (Unix, Linux, Solaris), from Driver's comment i assume that printf would be more portable. correct me if i'm wrong.

Thanks again!! Smilie
 

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XPRINTF_EXEC(3) 					   BSD Library Functions Manual 					   XPRINTF_EXEC(3)

NAME
asxprintf_exec, dxprintf_exec, fxprintf_exec, sxprintf_exec, xprintf_exec, vasxprintf_exec, vdxprintf_exec, vfxprintf_exec, vsxprintf_exec, vxprintf_exec -- execute-only extensible printf execution SYNOPSIS
#include <printf.h> int asxprintf_exec(char ** restrict ret, printf_comp_t restrict pc, ...); int dxprintf_exec(int fd, printf_comp_t restrict pc, ...); int fxprintf_exec(FILE * restrict stream, printf_comp_t restrict pc, ...); int sxprintf_exec(char * restrict str, size_t size, printf_comp_t restrict pc, ...); int xprintf_exec(printf_comp_t restrict pc, ...); #include <stdarg.h> int vasxprintf_exec(char ** restrict ret, printf_comp_t restrict pc, va_list ap); int vdxprintf_exec(int fd, printf_comp_t restrict pc, va_list ap); int vfxprintf_exec(FILE * restrict stream, printf_comp_t restrict pc, va_list ap); int vsxprintf_exec(char * restrict str, size_t size, printf_comp_t restrict pc, va_list ap); int vxprintf_exec(printf_comp_t restrict pc, va_list ap); DESCRIPTION
These functions are execute-only, extensible printf (see xprintf(5)) variants, taking a printf_comp_t structure created by the format string compilation routine new_printf_comp(3). All these variants behave like their normal printf counterparts (see printf(3)) without 'x' and ``_exec'' in the name (except sxprintf_exec() and vsxprintf_exec() behave like snprintf() and vsnprintf(), respectively). SEE ALSO
printf(3), xprintf_comp(3), xprintf(5) Darwin Aug 19, 2012 Darwin
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