Re: [Bashburn-info] Gettext support

[Nick W. <ni...@uk...>]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:30:05 -0400 (EDT)
"Steven W. Orr" <st...@sy...> wrote:

> >From bash however, we are given an extra obstacle. There are two
> >printf's. 
> One is the builtin inside bash:
> 
> 1519 > printf 'number1 is %2$s, and number2 is %1$s.\n' number2,
> number1 bash: printf: `$': invalid format character
> number1 is 1520 >
> 
> The other is the binary that's seperate from the builtin:
> 
> 1520 > /usr/bin/printf 'number1 is %2$s, and number2 is %1$s.\n' \
> 		number2  number1
> number1 is /usr/bin/printf: %$: invalid directive
> 1521 >
> 
> So we can see that they both don't work. Don't let that bother you.
> Just pretend that the functionality is really there. Worst case I can
> write a printf that does what we want. z.b., 
> 
> awk 'BEGIN {printf "number1 is %2$s, and number2 is %1$s.\n",
> "number2", "number1"}'
> number1 is number1, and number2 is
> number2.
> 

I just found this:

http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/advanced_bash_scripting_guide/localization.html

I don't know if it helps here.

Nick
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