Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000921100134.00b9fb98@courriel.polymtl.ca> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 10:04:06 -0400 To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Andre Bleau Subject: Re: Problems with 'expr' Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id KAA11301 > Hi, > > I tried to use 'expr'. And it worked fine for this >'expr 1 + 2 + 3'. But if I try to use '(' or '*' it >will print 'expr: syntax error'. Shouldn't the >following work? 'expr 3 * 4'? > > Jens Yllman The correct syntax is: expr 3 \* 4 or expr 3 '*' 4 same thing for ( or ). André Bleau, ing., analyste email: bleau at courriel dot polymtl dot ca (Fight SPAM: encode your email-address) Département de génie électrique et Electric Engineering and de génie informatique Computer Engineering department École Polytechnique de Montréal Montreal Polytechnic School -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com