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Re: substr
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
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man a century.
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