'printf -v'有什么作用?

时间:2015-05-07 10:52:12

标签: bash printf

在网上的bash脚本示例中多次遇到此printf -v之后,以及有关stackoverflow的几个问题,我在printf联机帮助页中找不到合适的解释。

man printfman 3 printf对我没有帮助。

我在哪里寻找?

1 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:10)

linux中存在多个printf命令:

  1. printf作为已知的C函数。 (在man 3 printf中描述)
  2. GNU printf,位于/usr/bin/printf。 (见man printf
  3. bash' printf built-in。 (请参阅man bash并在SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS部分查看相关条目)。另外,可以通过help printf找到帮助,它将显示联机帮助页中的内置说明。
  4. 要找出您确切需要的内容,请使用type <command>找出具体使用的内容:

    root@pi:~# type printf
    printf is a shell builtin
    

    所以3号是这里的解决方案:

    printf [-v var] format [arguments]

    The -v option causes the output to be assigned to the variable var rather than being printed to the standard output.

    摘自此处:

    printf [-v var] format [arguments]
        Write  the formatted arguments to the standard output under the control 
        of the format.  The -v option causes the output to be assigned to the 
        variable var rather than being printed to the standard output.
    
       The format is a character string which contains three types of objects: 
        plain characters, which are simply copied to standard output, character 
        escape sequences, which are converted and copied to the standard 
        output, and format specifications, each of which causes printing 
        of the next successive argument. In addition to the standard printf(1) 
        format specifications, printf interprets the following extensions:
    
           %b     causes  printf  to  expand backslash escape sequences in the 
                  corresponding argument (except that \c terminates output, 
                  backslashes in \', \", and \? are not removed, and octal escapes 
                  beginning with \0 may contain up to four digits).
    
           %q     causes printf to output the corresponding argument in a format that 
                  can be reused as shell input. 
    
           %(datefmt)T
                  causes  printf to output the date-time string resulting from using 
                  datefmt as a format string for strftime(3). The corresponding 
                  argument is an integer representing the number of seconds  since  
                  the epoch. 
    
                  Two  special argument values may be used: 
    
                      -1 represents the current time, and 
                      -2 represents the time the shell was invoked.
    
              Arguments  to  non-string  format  specifiers are treated as 
              C constants, except that a leading plus or minus sign is allowed, 
              and if the leading character is a single or double quote, 
              the value is the ASCII value of the following character.
    
              The  format  is  reused as necessary to consume all of the arguments.  
              If the format requires more arguments than are supplied, the extra 
              format specifications behave as if a zero value or null string, 
              as appropriate, had been supplied.  
    
              The return value is zero on success, non-zero on failure.