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Linux / Unix Command: dprintf
Command Library

NAME

dprintf, vdprintf - print to a file descriptor  

SYNOPSIS

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <stdio.h>

int dprintf(int fd, const char *format, ...);

int vdprintf(int fd, const char *format, va_list ap);  

DESCRIPTION

The functions dprintf and vdprintf (as found in the glibc2 library) are exact analogues of fprintf and vfprintf, except that they output to a file descriptor fd instead of to a given stream.  

SEE ALSO

printf(3)


Important: Use the man command (% man) to see how a command is used on your particular computer.

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