PRINTF(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to PRINTF(1) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation — yep, that’s the manual name, and this page is all about the printf command. printf — format and print data. periodt. ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

here’s the vibe check:

printf format [ argument ... ]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

The printf command uses the first argument as the format that describes how to print the remaining arguments. no cap. 🫶

the plot twist: unlike the standard printf(1) command, this one uses the Perl version. so if you were expecting the regular one, bestie, adjust your expectations accordingly 💅

See "sprintf" in perlfunc for details.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• printf(3)
• "sprintf" in perlfunc

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Tom Christiansen, tchrist@perl.com.

🎀 COPYRIGHT and LICENSE 🎀

This program is copyright (c) Tom Christiansen 1999.

This program is free and open software. You may use, modify, distribute, and sell this program (and any modified variants) in any way you wish, provided you do not restrict others from doing the same.

okay that’s the whole page, bestie — source/version: perl v5.42.2; date: 2026-02-15. mwah 💋