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Diffstat (limited to 'doc/coreutils.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 2a992dc2a..dff75cabc 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -8475,13 +8475,14 @@ all of the given @var{argument}s. @command{printf} has one additional directive, @samp{%b}, which prints its argument string with @samp{\} escapes interpreted in the same way as in -the @var{format} string. +the @var{format} string, except that octal escapes are of the form +@samp{\0@var{ooo}} where @var{ooo} is 0 to 3 octal digits. @kindex \@var{ooo} @kindex \x@var{hh} @command{printf} interprets @samp{\@var{ooo}} in @var{format} as an octal number -(if @var{ooo} is 0 to 3 octal digits) specifying a character to print, +(if @var{ooo} is 1 to 3 octal digits) specifying a character to print, and @samp{\x@var{hh}} as a hexadecimal number (if @var{hh} is 1 to 2 hex digits) specifying a character to print. |