From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Dec 1 00:40:11 1995 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA15077 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 00:40:11 -0800 Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA15038 ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 00:40:08 -0800 Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 00:40:08 -0800 Message-Id: <199512010840.AAA15038@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs Cc: From: J Wunsch Subject: Re: bin/855: /bin/expr broken in 2.1.0-RELEASE Reply-To: J Wunsch Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk The following reply was made to PR bin/855; it has been noted by GNATS. From: J Wunsch To: wagner@luthien.in-berlin.de Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/855: /bin/expr broken in 2.1.0-RELEASE Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 08:52:55 +0100 (MET) As wagner@luthien.in-berlin.de wrote: > > The ':'-operator fails for certain regular expressions (see below). For all those where the first operand was a valid number. > As I don't have any more time to have a look at the sources, I will > install /bin/expr from the 2.0.5 distribution, wich worked correctly. It was broken in other respects. (It compared all numbers as strings.) The fix is already in -current; i'll send it to you in a separate reply (without the list). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)