freebsd-src/usr.bin/printf
Jilles Tjoelker 9897c45f31 sh: Add printf builtin.
This was removed in 2001 but I think it is appropriate to add it back:
* I do not want to encourage people to write fragile and non-portable echo
  commands by making printf much slower than echo.
* Recent versions of Autoconf use it a lot.
* Almost no software still wants to support systems that do not have
  printf(1) at all.
* In many other shells printf is already a builtin.

Side effect: printf is now always the builtin version (which behaves
identically to /usr/bin/printf) and cannot be overridden via PATH (except
via the undocumented %builtin mechanism).

Code size increases about 5K on i386. Embedded folks might want to replace
/usr/bin/printf with a hard link to /usr/bin/alias.
2010-11-19 12:56:13 +00:00
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Makefile
printf.1 sh: Add printf builtin. 2010-11-19 12:56:13 +00:00
printf.c sh: Add printf builtin. 2010-11-19 12:56:13 +00:00