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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Important new program: cleanit.c
Message-ID: <3518@ski.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 5 Oct 89 22:39:59 GMT
References: <3492@ast.cs.vu.nl> <3498@solo10.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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I wrote:
\...
\	backup=`expr "$i" : '\(.............\)' \| "$i"`'#'

So MINIX's `expr' seems not to recognize the `:' operator: big deal.

	backup=`echo "$i" | sed 's/\(.............\).*/\1/'`'#'
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