From 7f8aef4d417e427153caba4255a2282cb9dd30d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Stoelp <johannes.stoelp@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 22:43:27 +0200
Subject: bash: printf -v

---
 src/tools/bash.md | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

(limited to 'src')

diff --git a/src/tools/bash.md b/src/tools/bash.md
index e12d8c0..f27b3a2 100644
--- a/src/tools/bash.md
+++ b/src/tools/bash.md
@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ ${foo/pattern/string}  # replace pattern with string when expanding foo
 # '/'   replace all occurences of pattern
 # '#'   pattern match at beginning
 # '%'   pattern match at end
+
+# set programmatically with priintf builtin
+printf -v "VAR1" "abc"
+NAME=VAR2
+printf -v "$NAME" "%s" "def"
 ```
 
 > Note: `prefix`/`suffix`/`pattern` are expanded as [pathnames](#pathname).
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