HP-UX Reference (11i v3 07/02) - 1 User Commands N-Z (vol 2)

printf(1) printf(1)

If any internationalization variable contains an invalid setting, printf behaves as if all internationalization

variables are set to "C". See environ(5).

International Code Set Support

Single and multi-byte character code sets are supported.

RETURN VALUE

printf exits with one of the following values:

0 Successful completion.

>0 Errors occurred; the exit value is increased by one for each error that occurred up to a maximum

of 255.

DIAGNOSTICS

If an argument cannot be converted into a form suitable for the corresponding conversion speciﬁcation, or

for any other reason cannot be correctly printed, a diagnostic message is printed to standard error, the

argument is output as a string form as it was given on the command line, and the exit value is incre-

mented.

EXAMPLES

The following command prints the number 123 in octal, hexadecimal and ﬂoating point formats in their

alternate form

printf "%#o, %#x, %#X, %#f, %#g, %#e\n" 123 123 123 123 123 123

resulting in the following output

0173, 0x7b, 0X7B, 123.000000, 123.000, 1.230000e+02

Print the outputs with their corresponding ﬁeld widths and precision:

printf "%.6d, %10.6d, %.6f, %.6e, %.6s\n" 123 123 1.23 123.4 MoreThanSix

resulting in the following output

000123, 000123, 1.230000, 1.234000e+02, MoreTh