substr

substr

[Jim George]

Folks,

    can someone tell me which package provides the substr command line
routine?

TIA,

Jim



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Re: substr

[Michael A Chase]

On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 07:05:06 +0100 Jim George <jim.george@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>     can someone tell me which package provides the substr command line
> routine?

You can look for yourself by following the "setup.exe Package Listing"
link from http://cygwin.com/ .

In this case, you probably want sed, gawk, or Perl, there is no UNIX
command 'substr'.
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Re: substr

[Gilgamesh Nootebos]

Michael A Chase wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 07:05:06 +0100 Jim George <jim.george@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
>>    can someone tell me which package provides the substr command line
>>routine?
> 
> In this case, you probably want sed, gawk, or Perl, there is no UNIX
> command 'substr'.

from the commandline you can use 'expr substr <string> <begin> <length>'

it's crude and OT but I just happened to need it today so I remembered this.

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Re: substr

[Randall R Schulz]

Dear Elegant,

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.

In this case, it's TCSH, which is not the default Cygwin shell (BASH is).

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 05:30 2002-04-23, Gilgamesh Nootebos wrote:
>Michael A Chase wrote:
>>On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 07:05:06 +0100 Jim George 
>><jim.george@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>Can someone tell me which package provides the substr command line routine?
>>
>>>In this case, you probably want sed, gawk, or Perl, there is no UNIX 
>>>command 'substr'.
>
> From the commandline you can use 'expr substr <string> <begin> <length>'
>
>It's crude and OT but I just happened to need it today so I remembered this.
>
>--
>Gilgamesh Nootebos (Elegant Relational Development)


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Re: substr

[Uwe Steinfeld]

Just try

$ expr --version
expr (GNU sh-utils) 2.0.11
Written by Mike Parker.

Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Greetings
Uwe

----- Original Message -----
From: "Randall R Schulz" <rrschulz@cris.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Cc: "Jim George" <jim.george@blueyonder.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: substr


> Dear Elegant,
>
> 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.
>
> In this case, it's TCSH, which is not the default Cygwin shell (BASH is).
>
> Randall Schulz
> Mountain View, CA USA
>
>
> At 05:30 2002-04-23, Gilgamesh Nootebos wrote:
> >Michael A Chase wrote:
> >>On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 07:05:06 +0100 Jim George
> >><jim.george@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >>Can someone tell me which package provides the substr command line
routine?
> >>
> >>>In this case, you probably want sed, gawk, or Perl, there is no UNIX
> >>>command 'substr'.
> >
> > From the commandline you can use 'expr substr <string> <begin> <length>'
> >
> >It's crude and OT but I just happened to need it today so I remembered
this.
> >
> >--
> >Gilgamesh Nootebos (Elegant Relational Development)
>
>
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Re: substr

[Jim George]

Thanks very much for this.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gilgamesh Nootebos" <Gilgamesh.Nootebos@elegant.nl>
To: "Cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Cc: "Jim George" <jim.george@blueyonder.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: substr


> Michael A Chase wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 07:05:06 +0100 Jim George
<jim.george@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>    can someone tell me which package provides the substr command line
> >>routine?
> >
> > In this case, you probably want sed, gawk, or Perl, there is no UNIX
> > command 'substr'.
>
> from the commandline you can use 'expr substr <string> <begin> <length>'
>
> it's crude and OT but I just happened to need it today so I remembered
this.
>
> --
> Gilgamesh Nootebos (Elegant Relational Development)
> @: Gilgamesh.Nootebos@elegant.nl
>
>


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Re: substr

[Gilgamesh Nootebos]

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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@: nootebos@quicknet.nl

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man a century.


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Re: substr

[Randall R Schulz]

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


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