adding small script, mostly for documentational purposes

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diff --git a/scripts/cleanup_printf2puts b/scripts/cleanup_printf2puts
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Processes current directory recursively:
+# printf("abc\n") -> puts("abc"). Beware of fprintf etc...
+
+# BTW, gcc 4.1.2 already does tha same! Can't believe it...
+
+grep -lr 'printf\([^%%]*\\n"\)' . | grep '.[ch]$' | xargs -n1 \
+    sed -e 's/\([^A-Za-z0-9_]\)printf(\( *"[^%]*\)\\n")/\1puts(\2")/' -i