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Originally Posted by RudiC

That LANG= doesn't necessarily help:

Code:

LANG="en_US.UTF-8" awk -v fmt="%'d\n" -v amount=10000 'BEGIN{printf fmt, amount}'
awk: run time error: improper conversion(number 1) in printf("%'d
")
    FILENAME="" FNR=0 NR=0

Does your locale -a list en_US.UTF-8 ?

Quote:

SUS V2 is from 1997, so there is a difference with the POSIX.1-2008 standard...

Edit it appears to have been changed in the SUS V3 specifications (POSIX:2001). printf()

You are right that it should be used with caution though..

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