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Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 18:40:01 +0200
From: Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be>
To: na na <shailesh_mangayil@india.com>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com, shyamk@eth.net
Subject: Re: Bug in red Hat linux version 7.0
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On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 09:50:23PM +0800, na na wrote:
> May I straightaway start describing the bug ?
> [sam@org.org sam]expr 10/2  #which should output 5
> 10/2

Looks fine to me.  Try expr 10 / 2.

> [sam@org.org sam]a=22
> [sam@org.org sam]a=`expr $a`+10
> [sam@org.org sam]echo $a
> 22+10

Still looks fine, now try a=`expr $a + 10`.


Kurt


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