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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 AT quicknet DOT nl A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century. -- 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/
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