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From: Unknown@stcns3.stc.oz (Unknown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: trouble with expr
Message-ID: <268@stcns3.stc.oz>
Date: 8 Mar 88 02:38:44 GMT
References: <717@yabbie.rmit.oz>
Reply-To: dave@stcns3.stc.oz (Dave Horsfall)
Organization: STC Pty Ltd, North Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Lines: 18
Keywords: expr,sco xenix,bug(?)
Really-From: dave@stcns3.stc.oz (Dave Horsfall - I know, I know...)


In article <717@yabbie.rmit.oz> radjg@yabbie.rmit.oz (Jordan Green) writes:
>I have been trying to use expr(C) to do some integer manipulation and find
>that I cannot get the multiplication to work.
>
>expr 2 * 3
>
>simply returns
>2 * 3
>
>All the other arithmetical functions seem to work so what am I doing wrong with the multiplication?
>
That's the clue.  At a guess, I'd say you need to escape the "*" from the shell.

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