Screen Output: printf

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• You have much more control with the printf command:

printf format-string [argument …]

• Notice that the format-string is required, but the list of arguments is not

• The format string uses special printf codes to format data (see printf(1) and the section of printf(3) titled "Format of the format string"), such as:

• %i display an integer value
• %s display a string
• %c display a single character

• Plus the escape codes like \n and \t as with echo.