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From: Gilgamesh Nootebos <nootebos@quicknet.nl>
To: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz@cris.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: substr
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 18:57:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CC5D0BB.1070905@quicknet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020423084411.00af4638@pop3.cris.com>

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
-- 
Gilgamesh Nootebos
@: nootebos@quicknet.nl

A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest
man a century.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-04-24  1:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-22 23:28 substr Jim George
2002-04-22 23:54 ` substr Michael A Chase
2002-04-23  6:46   ` substr Gilgamesh Nootebos
2002-04-23 11:08     ` substr Randall R Schulz
2002-04-23 11:48       ` substr Uwe Steinfeld
2002-04-23 18:57       ` Gilgamesh Nootebos [this message]
2002-04-23 21:28         ` substr Randall R Schulz
2002-04-23 13:02     ` substr Jim George

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