Using “printf” for hex values in android shell

Question

I am porting my shell script (quite big shell script) from bash to android shell (mksh shell).

In Android, printf does not seem to be working the same way a

Answer 1

printf in Android is linking to toybox

root:/ # which printf
/system/bin/printf
root:/ # ls -l /system/bin/printf
lrwxr-xr-x root     shell             2016-11-14 21:02 printf -> toybox

So the issue turned out to be in toybox printf.

The issue is now fixed - https://github.com/landley/toybox/issues/54