path: root/tests/printf.tests

LC_ALL=C
LC_NUMERIC=C

# these should output error messages -- the format is required
printf
printf --

# these should output nothing
printf ""
printf -- ""

# in the future this may mean to put the output into VAR, but for
# now it is an error
# 2005-03-15 no longer an error
unset var
printf -v var "%10d" $RANDOM
echo ${#var}

# this should expand escape sequences in the format string, nothing else
printf "\tone\n"

# this should not cut off output after the \c
printf "one\ctwo\n"

# and unrecognized backslash escapes should have the backslash preserverd
printf "4\.2\n"

printf "no newline " ; printf "now newline\n"

# %% -> %
printf "%%\n"

# this was a bug caused by pre-processing the string for backslash escapes
# before doing the `%' format processing -- all versions before bash-2.04
printf "\045" ; echo
printf "\045d\n"

# simple character output
printf "%c\n" ABCD

# test simple string output
printf "%s\n" unquoted

# test quoted string output
printf "%s %q\n" unquoted quoted
printf "%s%10q\n" unquoted quoted

printf "%q\n" 'this&that'

# make sure the format string is reused to use up arguments
printf "%d " 1 2 3 4 5; printf "\n"

# make sure that extra format characters get null arguments
printf "%s %d %d %d\n" onestring

printf "%s %d %u %4.2f\n" onestring

printf -- "--%s %s--\n" 4.2 ''
printf -- "--%s %s--\n" 4.2

# test %b escapes

# 8 is a non-octal digit, so the `81' should be output
printf -- "--%b--\n" '\n\081'

printf -- "--%b--\n" '\t\0101'
printf -- "--%b--\n" '\t\101'

# these should all display `A7'
echo -e "\01017"
echo -e "\x417"

printf "%b\n" '\01017'
printf "%b\n" '\1017'
printf "%b\n" '\x417'

printf -- "--%b--\n" '\"abcd\"'
printf -- "--%b--\n" "\'abcd\'"

printf -- "--%b--\n" 'a\\x'

printf -- "--%b--\n" '\x'

Z1=$(printf -- "%b\n" '\a\b\e\f\r\v')
Z2=$'\a\b\e\f\r\v'

if [ "$Z1" != "$Z2" ]; then
	echo "whoops: printf %b and $'' differ" >&2
fi
unset Z1 Z2

printf -- "--%b--\n" ''
printf -- "--%b--\n"

# the stuff following the \c should be ignored, as well as the rest
# of the format string
printf -- "--%b--\n" '4.2\c5.4\n'; printf "\n"

# unrecognized escape sequences should by displayed unchanged
printf -- "--%b--\n" '4\.2'

# a bare \ should not be processed as an escape sequence
printf -- "--%b--\n" '\'

# make sure extra arguments are ignored if the format string doesn't
# actually use them
printf "\n" 4.4 BSD
printf " " 4.4 BSD ; printf "\n"

# make sure that a fieldwidth and precision of `*' are handled right
printf "%10.8s\n" 4.4BSD
printf "%*.*s\n" 10 8 4.4BSD

printf "%10.8q\n" 4.4BSD
printf "%*.*q\n" 10 8 4.4BSD

printf "%6b\n" 4.4BSD
printf "%*b\n" 6 4.4BSD

# we handle this crap with homemade code in printf.def
printf "%10b\n" 4.4BSD
printf -- "--%-10b--\n" 4.4BSD
printf "%4.2b\n" 4.4BSD
printf "%.3b\n" 4.4BSD
printf -- "--%-8b--\n" 4.4BSD

# test numeric conversions -- these four lines should echo identically
printf "%d %u %i 0%o 0x%x 0x%X\n" 255 255 255 255 255 255
printf "%d %u %i %#o %#x %#X\n" 255 255 255 255 255 255

printf "%ld %lu %li 0%o 0x%x 0x%X\n" 255 255 255 255 255 255
printf "%ld %lu %li %#o %#x %#X\n" 255 255 255 255 255 255

printf "%10d\n" 42
printf "%10d\n" -42

printf "%*d\n" 10 42
printf "%*d\n" 10 -42

# test some simple floating point formats
printf "%4.2f\n" 4.2
printf "%#4.2f\n" 4.2
printf "%#4.1f\n" 4.2

printf "%*.*f\n" 4 2 4.2
printf "%#*.*f\n" 4 2 4.2
printf "%#*.*f\n" 4 1 4.2

printf "%E\n" 4.2
printf "%e\n" 4.2
printf "%6.1E\n" 4.2
printf "%6.1e\n" 4.2

printf "%G\n" 4.2
printf "%g\n" 4.2
printf "%6.2G\n" 4.2
printf "%6.2g\n" 4.2

# test some of the more esoteric features of POSIX.1 printf
printf "%d\n" "'string'"
printf "%d\n" '"string"'

printf "%#o\n" "'string'"
printf "%#o\n" '"string"'

printf "%#x\n" "'string'"
printf "%#X\n" '"string"'

printf "%6.2f\n" "'string'"
printf "%6.2f\n" '"string"'

# output from these two lines had better be the same
printf -- "--%6.4s--\n" abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
printf -- "--%6.4b--\n" abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

# and these two also
printf -- "--%12.10s--\n" abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
printf -- "--%12.10b--\n" abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

# tests for translating \' to ' and \\ to \
# printf translates \' to ' in the format string...
printf "\'abcd\'\n"

# but not when the %b format specification is used
printf "%b\n" \\\'abcd\\\'

# but both translate \\ to \
printf '\\abcd\\\n'
printf "%b\n" '\\abcd\\'

# this was reported as a bug in bash-2.03
# these three lines should all echo `26'
printf "%d\n" 0x1a
printf "%d\n" 032
printf "%d\n" 26

# error messages

# this should be an overflow, but error messages vary between systems
# printf "%lu\n" 4294967296

# ...but we cannot use this because some systems (SunOS4, for example),
# happily ignore overflow conditions in strtol(3)
#printf "%ld\n" 4294967296

printf "%10"
printf "ab%Mcd\n"

# this caused an infinite loop in older versions of printf
printf "%y" 0

# these should print a warning and `0', according to POSIX.2
printf "%d\n" GNU
printf "%o\n" GNU

# failures in all bash versions through bash-2.05
printf "%.0s" foo
printf "%.*s" 0 foo

printf '%.0b-%.0s\n' foo bar
printf '(%*b)(%*s)\n' -4 foo -4 bar

format='%'`printf '%0100384d' 0`'d\n' 
printf $format 0

# failures in all bash versions through bash-3.0 - undercounted characters
unset vv
printf "  %s %s %s  \n%n" ab cd ef vv
echo "$vv"

# this doesn't work with printf(3) on all systems
#printf "%'s\n" foo

# test cases from an austin-group list discussion
# prints ^G as an extension
printf '%b\n' '\7'

# prints ^G
printf '%b\n' '\0007'

# prints NUL then 7
printf '\0007\n'

# prints no more than two hex digits
printf '\x07e\n'

# additional backslash escapes
printf '\"\?\n'

# failures with decimal precisions until after bash-3.1
printf '%0.5d\n' 1

printf '%05d\n' 1
printf '%5d\n' 1
printf '%0d\n' 1

# failures with various floating point formats and 0 after bash-3.2

printf "%G\n" 0
printf "%g\n" 0
printf "%4.2G\n" 0
printf "%4.2g\n" 0

printf "%G\n" 4
printf "%g\n" 4
printf "%4.2G\n" 4
printf "%4.2g\n" 4

printf "%F\n" 0
printf "%f\n" 0
printf "%4.2F\n" 0
printf "%4.2f\n" 0

printf "%F\n" 4
printf "%f\n" 4
printf "%4.2F\n" 4
printf "%4.2f\n" 4

printf "%E\n" 0
printf "%e\n" 0
printf "%4.2E\n" 0
printf "%4.2e\n" 0

printf "%E\n" 4
printf "%e\n" 4
printf "%4.2E\n" 4
printf "%4.2e\n" 4

printf "%08X\n" 2604292517

# make sure these format specifiers all output '' for empty string arguments
echo q
printf "%q\n" ""
printf "%q\n"

echo s
printf "%s\n" ''
printf "%s\n"

echo b
printf "%b\n" ''
printf "%b\n"

# bug in bash versions up to and including bash-3.2
v=yyy
printf -v var "%s" '/current/working/directory/*.@(m3|i3|ig|mg)'
shopt -s nullglob extglob
echo "x$(printf "%b" @(hugo))x"
printf -v var "%b" @(hugo); echo "x${var}x"

# make sure that missing arguments are always handled like the empty string
printf "<%3s><%3b>\n"

# tests variable assignment with -v
${THIS_SH} ./printf1.sub

${THIS_SH} ./printf2.sub

${THIS_SH} ./printf3.sub

${THIS_SH} ./printf4.sub