Julian Phillips <julian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > printf is a bash builtin ... not sure about other shells. It's a builtin in zsh and in ksh, and /not/ in tcsh here (Fedora rawhide) zsh-4.2.6-3.fc7 ksh-20060214-1.1 tcsh-6.14-13 It might be special configuration, but as they are mentioned in the manpages I'd guess not. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html