Timeline for Why is printf better than echo?
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| Jun 16, 2024 at 4:06 | comment | added | belkka | Understanding of "shell quoting" is required to understand most of the examples in answers. A good tutorial: grymoire.com/Unix/Quote.html | |
| Jan 4, 2024 at 8:47 | history | protected | dr_ | ||
| Nov 17, 2021 at 18:53 | comment | added | Gabriel Staples | I've added a big and very-related answer here (Stack Overflow: Piping echo to netcat fails while piping printf passes) which quotes from and references the main answer below. | |
| Sep 2, 2021 at 8:31 | history | unprotected | AdminBee | ||
| Mar 28, 2020 at 4:09 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| S May 15, 2015 at 1:44 | history | suggested | Sildoreth | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Fixed wording and punctuation |
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| Oct 3, 2014 at 17:00 | answer | added | John | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 22, 2013 at 22:30 | vote | accept | amphibient | ||
| Feb 22, 2013 at 22:23 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackUnix/status/305080508885381120 | ||
| Feb 22, 2013 at 21:31 | answer | added | Stéphane Chazelas | timeline score: 1019 | |
| Feb 22, 2013 at 20:21 | answer | added | 0xC0000022L | timeline score: 20 | |
| Feb 22, 2013 at 20:13 | answer | added | NlightNFotis | timeline score: 37 | |
| Feb 22, 2013 at 20:05 | history | edited | amphibient | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 12 characters in body |
| Feb 22, 2013 at 19:57 | history | edited | amphibient | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 3 characters in body; edited title |
| Feb 22, 2013 at 19:49 | history | asked | amphibient | CC BY-SA 3.0 |