Re: [Bashburn-info] Gettext support

[Steven W. O. <st...@sy...>]

On Thursday, Sep 11th 2008 at 03:11 -0000, quoth Nick Warne:

=>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, you're so modest! This is officially sexy. :-)

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