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printf

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Format and print text. See also: `echo`.

Examples (6)

Print a text message

printf "%s\n" "Hello world"

Print an integer in bold blue

printf "\e[1;34m%.3d\e[0m\n" 42

Print a float number with the Unicode Euro sign

printf "\u20AC %.2f\n" 123.4

Print a text message composed with environment variables

printf "var1: %s\tvar2: %s\n" "$VAR1" "$VAR2"

Store a formatted message in a variable (does not work on Zsh)

printf -v myvar "This is %s = %d\n" "a year" 2016

Print a hexadecimal, octal, and scientific number

printf "hex=%x octal=%o scientific=%e\n" 0xFF 0377 100000