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| author | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2000-01-22 12:46:31 +0000 |
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| committer | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2000-01-22 12:46:31 +0000 |
| commit | 7baab6309586eda67764e44c12442894823291ca (patch) | |
| tree | 87f601baa194601acab9e642b2f5098f43b6cdc7 /usr.bin | |
| parent | 0a46552ab6ad5ad0dd8f93517be8d8dd71229b9f (diff) | |
Add a couple of useful examples.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/printf/printf.1 | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 b/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 index 1ffdebbb813..245543d7565 100644 --- a/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 +++ b/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: printf.1,v 1.7 1999/06/05 01:21:37 aaron Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: printf.1,v 1.8 2000/01/22 12:46:30 aaron Exp $ .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990 The Regents of the University of California. .\" All rights reserved. .\" @@ -286,6 +286,15 @@ the actual width. .Sh RETURN VALUES .Nm printf exits 0 on success or 1 on failure. +.Sh EXAMPLES +Convert a hexidecimal value to decimal and print it out: +.Pp +.D1 Ic printf \&"%d\en\&" 0x20 +.Pp +Print the decimal representation of the character 'a' (see +.Xr ascii 7 ) : +.Pp +.D1 Ic printf \&"%d\en\&" \e'a .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr echo 1 , .Xr printf 3 |