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According to the Open Group Base Specifications, IFS is an abbreviation for "input field separators." [1] A newer version of this specification mentions that "this name is misleading as the IFS characters are actually used as field terminators."
In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, printf is a shell builtin (and utility program [2]) that formats and outputs text like the same-named C function. Originally named for outputting to a printer, it actually outputs to standard output. [3] The command accepts a format string, which specifies how to format values, and a list of values.
The C programming language provides many standard library functions for file input and output.These functions make up the bulk of the C standard library header <stdio.h>. [1] The functionality descends from a "portable I/O package" written by Mike Lesk at Bell Labs in the early 1970s, [2] and officially became part of the Unix operating system in Version 7.
For example, an integer can be printed using the "%d" formatting code, e.g.: printf("%d", 42); This formats the integer "42" as text and prints it to the standard output. printf is typically the first function any C programmer encounters, because it is the only function which appears in the standard Hello world program:
$ # bash shell $ /bin/bash-c 'echo a{p,c,d,b}e' ape ace ade abe $ # A traditional shell does not produce the same output $ /bin/sh-c 'echo a{p,c,d,b}e' a{p,c,d,b}e When brace expansion is combined with wildcards, the braces are expanded first, and then the resulting wildcards are substituted normally.
stdarg.h is a header in the C standard library of the C programming language that allows functions to accept an indefinite number of arguments. [1] It provides facilities for stepping through a list of function arguments of unknown number and type.
The printf function emulates the standard C printf and works similarly to the print command described above. The pattern to match, however, works as follows: NR is the number of records, typically lines of input, AWK has so far read, i.e. the current line number, starting at 1 for the first line of input.
The formatting function has been combined with output in C++23, which provides [16] the std::print command as a replacement for printf(). As the format specification has become a part of the language syntax, C++ compiler is able to prevent invalid combinations of types and format specifiers in many cases.