Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote: > I've just filed a bug report with The Mathworks, vendor of the > widely-used Matlab matrix algebra system. Their bin/matlab startup > script (all versions up to current) contains code like this: > > if [ `expr "$lscmd" : '.*->.*'` -ne 0 ]; then > > With native versions of expr, and expr from GNU coreutils prior to > version 7.0, the expansion of lscmd usually begins "-rw-r--r--", but > the leading hyphen does not cause the word to be treated as an option.
I think that was an unintended change introduced when adding getopt to expr: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=f65cafd67b33009d23f940968bbe7f9a08d6fe13 Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
