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From: jon@fdmetd.uucp (Jon Ivar Tr|stheim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,nuug.general
Subject: Why doesn't this work ?
Keywords: /bin/sh
Message-ID: <443@fdmetd.uucp>
Date: 14 Jun 89 10:19:37 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.questions
Organization: Fellesdata a.s, Oslo, Norway
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Why does not the following command work in a Bourne shell script ?

	USERID=`expr "`id`" : 'uid=\([0-9]*\)(.*'`

The shell does not feed the whole argument list to 'expr(1)', so I get
the following error message:

	sh:   : 'uid=\([0-9]*\)(.*': execute permission denied

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