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From: tkevans@fallst.UUCP (Tim Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: trouble with expr
Message-ID: <299@fallst.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 88 11:49:14 GMT
References: <717@yabbie.rmit.oz>
Organization: Tim Evans, Fallston, MD
Lines: 12
Keywords: expr,sco xenix,bug(?)
Summary: Backslash that "*"

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
> 
Backslash the "*"--as in
	expr 2 \* 3

(The shell is interpreting the asterisk as a normal shell metacharacter)

				Tim Evans