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+printf [ -v name ] format [ arg ... ]
+       Print  the arguments according to the format specification. For-
+       matting rules are the same as used in C.  The  same  escape  se-
+       quences  as for echo are recognised in the format. All C conver-
+       sion specifications ending in one of csdiouxXeEfgGn are handled.
+       In  addition  to this, `%b' can be used instead of `%s' to cause
+       escape sequences in the argument to be recognised and  `%q'  can
+       be used to quote the argument in such a way that allows it to be
+       reused as shell input. With the numeric  format  specifiers,  if
+       the  corresponding  argument  starts with a quote character, the
+       numeric value of the following character is used as  the  number
+       to  print;  otherwise the argument is evaluated as an arithmetic
+       expression. See the  section  `Arithmetic  Evaluation'  in  zsh-
+       misc(1)  for a description of arithmetic expressions. With `%n',
+       the corresponding argument is taken as an  identifier  which  is
+       created as an integer parameter.
+
+       Normally, conversion specifications are applied to each argument
+       in order but they can explicitly specify the nth argument is  to
+       be  used by replacing `%' by `%n$' and `*' by `*n$'.  It is rec-
+       ommended that you do not mix references of this  explicit  style
+       with  the normal style and the handling of such mixed styles may
+       be subject to future change.
+
+       If arguments remain unused after formatting, the  format  string
+       is reused until all arguments have been consumed. With the print
+       builtin, this can be suppressed by using the -r option. If  more
+       arguments  are  required by the format than have been specified,
+       the behaviour is as if zero or an empty string had  been  speci-
+       fied as the argument.
+
+       The -v option causes the output to be stored as the value of the
+       parameter name, instead of printed. If name is an array and  the
+       format  string is reused when consuming arguments then one array
+       element will be used for each use of the format string.