Printf puts a percent sign after everything it prints

Question

Whenever I use printf in the shell whether it is within awk , a standalone application, or in C/C++ it prints a "%" after everything. For instance, when I type printf "hi" I get this as an output hi% . I am on Arch Linux using zsh as a shell and konsole as a terminal emulator. The font I use is MesloLGS NF.

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Answer 1

This is zsh 's way of telling you that the preceding command outputted a partial line and the shell terminated that line to give you a prompt on a new line.

You can disable this behavior by typing PROMPT_EOL_MARK='' into the command prompt.