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I'm in the kiddie pool, so I do look things up or ask what stuff does. Even though I looked at the man page for printf (printf.3 I believe), there was nothing about %*s for example, and searching for these things outside of asking LLM's is some times too hard to filter down to the correct answer. I'm on 2 lines of code per hour, so I'm not exactly rushing.
Shell scripting is quite annoying to be sure. Thinking of learning python instead.
Come on, I just googled printf bash and the first link gave me very comprehensive page on how it works and what parameters are and how to use them. It was 3 pages on my phone.
Please, don't get what I am about to say the wrong way, but if this was too complicated to you, this is your problem, not anything else. This is how people learn, there is no cheat code to it, you need to learn how to find the information and how to absorb it, and no robot will ever do it for you.
Bash is confusing mess, sure, but using random words genrtator to chew it for you will make things worse for you. It's very possible that you're on 2 lines per hour precisely because you're using LLM.