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authorJilles Tjoelker <jilles@FreeBSD.org>2019-07-29 20:43:07 +0000
committerJilles Tjoelker <jilles@FreeBSD.org>2019-07-29 20:43:07 +0000
commit2bf7d924ff5b2f17550003b72a239b9e146548b8 (patch)
tree7452a35d156a7d16323c3e82912dae23314704e9 /usr.bin/printf
parentdf8aa95b312cd3bbebcff18a2125399c8403ce0a (diff)
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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/printf')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/printf/printf.111
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 b/usr.bin/printf/printf.1
index 4a052e429fc7..dfc3a718ae02 100644
--- a/usr.bin/printf/printf.1
+++ b/usr.bin/printf/printf.1
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
.\" @(#)printf.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd April 21, 2014
+.Dd July 29, 2019
.Dt PRINTF 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -87,8 +87,6 @@ are as follows:
Write a <bell> character.
.It Cm \eb
Write a <backspace> character.
-.It Cm \ec
-Ignore remaining characters in this string.
.It Cm \ef
Write a <form-feed> character.
.It Cm \en
@@ -289,7 +287,12 @@ The permitted escape sequences are slightly different in that
octal escapes are
.Cm \e0 Ns Ar num
instead of
-.Cm \e Ns Ar num .
+.Cm \e Ns Ar num
+and that an additional escape sequence
+.Cm \ec
+stops further output from this
+.Nm
+invocation.
.It Cm n$
Allows reordering of the output according to
.Ar argument .