[Bug]: -vgprintf: warning: ignoring excess arguments, starting with ‘duration’

[Proteusiq]

What did you expect to happen?

Not to see a warning at every command I write

What happened?

I get this message at the end of all my commands: -vgprintf: warning: ignoring excess arguments, starting with ‘duration’

Atuin doctor output

atuin:
  version: 18.2.0
  sync: null
shell:
  name: zsh
  default: zsh
  plugins:
  - atuin
system:
  os: Darwin
  arch: arm64
  version: 14.4.1
  disks:
  - name: Macintosh HD
    filesystem: apfs
  - name: Macintosh HD
    filesystem: apfs

-vgprintf: warning: ignoring excess arguments, starting with ‘duration’

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[poliorcetics]

Probably coming from

atuin/crates/atuin/src/shell/atuin.zsh

Line 44 in 0639ff4

printf -v duration %.0f $(((__atuin_precmd_time - __atuin_preexec_time) * 1000000000))

I'm unsure how that happens though, because testing on the same macOS version with a ZSH doesn't produce this for me and testing doesn't show it:

/bin/zsh -c 'printf -v toto "value = %s" "abc"; echo $toto'

I see a few possibilities:

1. What does echo $SHELL show ? Can you do $SHELL --version ?
2. What does which printf return ? For me on macOS with the default ZSH it is printf: shell built-in command

[Proteusiq]

Logs

 ❯ echo $SHELL
/bin/zsh
-vgprintf: warning: ignoring excess arguments, starting with ‘duration’

and

 ❯ $SHELL --version
zsh 5.9 (x86_64-apple-darwin23.0)
-vgprintf: warning: ignoring excess arguments, starting with ‘duration’

❯ which printf
/usr/bin/printf
-vgprintf: warning: ignoring excess arguments, starting with ‘duration’

[poliorcetics]

❯ which printf
/usr/bin/printf

That's not the same result as me, so I would say there is a clue there but I'm confused as to why this would be different.

I don't even get the same error when calling it directly:

> /usr/bin/printf -v duration %.0f 123
/usr/bin/printf: illegal option -- v
usage: printf format [arguments ...]

[Proteusiq]

So which I do

❯ /usr/bin/printf -v duration %.0f 123
/usr/bin/printf: illegal option -- v
usage: printf format [arguments ...]

but this cause issues

❯ printf -v duration %.0f 123
-vgprintf: warning: ignoring excess arguments, starting with ‘duration’

while

❯ $(which printf) -v
/usr/bin/printf: illegal option -- v duration %.0f 123
usage: printf format [arguments ...]

So I am not sure why a direct call does not work :)

I tried to alias

alias printf=$(which printf)

Now the error is after each command

❯ ls #mydotfile
alacritty  Brewfile  Brewfile.lock.json  fzf  git  install.sh  LICENSE  macos  nvim  README.md  run.sh  skhd  starship  tmux  vim  vscode  yabai  zsh
/usr/bin/printf: illegal option -- v
usage: printf format [arguments ...]

but

type printf
printf is an alias for gprintf

Could this be an issue?

[Proteusiq]

unalias to get

❯ type printf
printf is a shell builtin

fix the issue