On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 02:02:53PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I believe dash mimics the XSI column, whereas bash makes up it's own rules. > Again, the shell command "printf" is much more consistent. Yes. In case of bash and dash, they both have printf as builtins. It is quite predictable as external command /usr/bin/printf. Osamu