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Re: [PATCH] grep: make show_line more portable

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Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date
Mar 9, 2009, 02:44 UTC
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On Mar 8, 2009, at 10:22 PM, Jay Soffian wrote:
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> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Brian Gernhardt
> <benji@silverinsanity.com> wrote:
>> On OS X the printf specifier "%.0s" outputs the entire string instead
>> of 0 characters as POSIX states.
>
> Does not reproduce for me:

Nor for me, as I noted on the other thread... And looking again, I was reading the man page for printf(1), not printf(3). Ouch. *grumble, grumble* I'm crawling back under my rock now.

~~ B
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  1. grep: make show_line more portableBrian Gernhardt, Mar 9, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoMar 9, 2009
  3. Jay SoffianMar 9, 2009
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  5. Brian GernhardtMar 9, 2009
  6. Junio C HamanoMar 9, 2009
  7. Johannes SchindelinMar 9, 2009
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