Gilgamesh, Two mistakes on my part:
1) Your name--I'm sorry about that 2) Assuming that "expr" is a shell built-in. It's not. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 14:23 2002-04-23, you wrote: >Randall R Schulz wrote: >>Dear Elegant, > >thank you kindly for calling me that, but my real name is Gilgamesh, >Elegant is part of my employers name. > >>Please be specific about what program implements the "expr substr" >>command. The phrase "the command line" is not singly defined on any Unix >>(or Unix-like) system extant today. >'usr/bin/expr.exe' is provided by sh-utils ( >http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=sh-utils/sh-utils-2.0-2&grep=expr >) > >I'm not exactly sure if it is a builtin of tcsh/bash/ksh/ash, but I do >know it should be available outside a shell on a system that uses SUSv2 ( >http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/expr.html ) as a >guideline(which Cygwin as a distribution tries to do AFAIK). > >When I wrote my earlier post I didn't have a web connection but I did >double check on a HP-UX ksh terminal that it should work as I thought it >would. It even works using from a cmd.exe shell from W2K. > >Regards, > >Gilgamesh Nootebos -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
