From: Brian Gernhardt Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 02:44:40 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] grep: make show_line more portable Message-ID: <5ACAF49A-84B5-4F55-A8B8-0FC711708810@silverinsanity.com> In-Reply-To: <76718490903081922p105ebf79vb0bf06989413887c@mail.gmail.com> On Mar 8, 2009, at 10:22 PM, Jay Soffian wrote: > On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Brian Gernhardt > 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