Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!clyde!masscomp!black From: black@masscomp.UUCP (Sam Black) Newsgroups: net.sources Subject: Re: "printf" lookalike from shell-level (for VAXen) Message-ID: <1332@masscomp.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Jan-87 10:45:30 EST Article-I.D.: masscomp.1332 Posted: Mon Jan 12 10:45:30 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Jan-87 22:40:30 EST References: <9@gyre.UUCP> Reply-To: black@masscomp.UUCP (Sam Black) Organization: MASSCOMP - Westford, Ma Lines: 23 Keywords: printf echo format gross In article <9@gyre.UUCP> fred@gyre.UUCP (Fred Blonder) writes: >Here's a handy little program which works sort of like echo, except >that it does formatting in the manner of printf. In fact, it uses >printf to do its formatting, so you have the full functionality of >printf available at the shell level. You can do the same thing with AWK, and it works on all machines that have AWK. With C shell, do something like: alias printf "echo ' ' | awk '{ printf(\!*) }'" You can probably define a function in Bourne shell to do the same thing, too. ---------------------------------------------- There are only two kinds of planes in the world: Fighters and targets. - 1Lt. Steven Brown, 63 TFTS ...!{decvax,allegra,harvard,seismo,unc,ihnp4}!masscomp!black ----------------------------------------------