.TH _PRINTF 1 2022-04-19 GNU

.SH NAME

_printf \- check format and display data on standard output

.SH SYNOPSIS

.B _printf FORMAT [ARGUMENT] ...

.B _printf OPTION

.SH DESCRIPTION

.B _printf ARGUMENTS(s)

takes unlimted no of arguments with different formats, executes and gives outputs a string to std output. The formats are described below;

.TP

.B Conversion Specifiers

A character that determines the type of conversion to be applied. They include;

.TP

.BR \i " "

The int argument is converted to signed decimal notation.

.TP

.B c " "

The int argument is converted to a char and the resulting character is printed.

.TP

.B s " "

The const char * argument is expected to be a pointer to a string. The character are parsed and written as an array but the null teminator ('\0') is not incuded.

.TP

.B % " "

This is a format specifier, the next value is converted but % is not converted.

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.B b " "

the unsigned int argument is converted to binary and printed on display.

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.B p " "

the void pinter argument is written in hexadecimal then displayed.

.SH OPTION

.TP

.BR \-h "," \-? ", " \-\-help

display this help information.

.TP

.BR \-v ", " \-\-version

outputs the current version

.TP

.BR \-d ", " \-\-dir " " fIpath

outputs only the current version

.SH RETURN VALUE

When the function runs successfully it returns the number of characters printed not including the null byte at the end of the all strings

.SH FILES

.TP

.I /etc/man

.SH Author

written by Erasto Wamuti, Winnie Ouma

.SH SEE ALSO

.B printf(1)

Full Details ⟨http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/printf⟩.