e51a2e6d2f
The one specified by mdoc is hard to read for non-native speakers from countries which read the date day-first (like Germany, Greece, North-Korea, Swamp,...). This is also consistent with how we generally specify dates at suckless.org.
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Groff
34 lines
836 B
Groff
.Dd 2015-10-08
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.Dt PRINTF 1
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.Os sbase
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm printf
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.Nd print formatted data
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Ar format
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.Op Ar arg ...
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm
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writes formatted data according to
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.Ar format
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using each
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.Ar arg
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until drained.
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.Pp
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.Nm
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interprets the standard escape sequences \e\e, \e', \e", \ea, \eb, \ee,
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\ef, \en, \er, \et, \ev, \exH[H], \eO[OO], the sequence \ec, which
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terminates further output if it's found inside
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.Ar format
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or a %b format string, the format specification %b for an unescaped string and all C
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.Xr printf 3
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format specifications ending with csdiouxXaAeEfFgG, including variable width and precision.
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The
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.Nm
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utility is compliant with the
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.St -p1003.1-2013
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specification except from the octal-escape format in %b format strings, which has been changed
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from \e0[ooo] to \eo[oo] for consistency reasons.
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