Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 23:19:59 +1000 (EST) From: Gary Roberts <gdr@ajax.che.curtin.edu.au> To: un_x@hotmail.com (steve howe) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: expr failure Message-ID: <199703091320.XAA07975@ajax.che.curtin.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199703091226.EAA16596@f16.hotmail.com> from "steve howe" at Mar 9, 97 04:26:58 am
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steve howe writes:
> "/bin/expr" seems to be non-funtional.
Works fine for me if you write the script properly.
> !#/bin/sh
^^
#!/bin/sh
> a=0; a='expr $a + 1' # right out of man page for expr
^ ^
Are you sure that's not supposed to be a=`expr $a + 1`
Go read the man page again -- a bit more carefully.
With those two corrections output is `val is 1' on several flavours
of FreeBSD (from 1.1.5.1 to 2.2). I presume you did want `a' to be 1?
> case $a in
> 0) echo val is 0;;
> 1) echo val is 1;;
> esac
> 2.1.5 - does this work for anyone?
> i'm not sure if bugs are to be considered a "fluke"
> or if they are considered a "normal" thing in this stage of FBSD
> development. please respond to sender in addition to maillist.
You should really examine your code a bit more carefully before
casting such slurs on the developers. Knowing how hard they work,
I'm sure they would find your comments rather offensive.
Cheers,
--
Gary Roberts (gdr@wcs.uq.edu.au) (Ph +617 3844 0400 Fax +617 3844 0444)
4th Floor, South Bank House, 234 Grey St, South Bank QLD 4101 Australia.
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