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Re: not able to run epr command in UBUNTU's bash shell
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Eric Blake |
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Re: not able to run epr command in UBUNTU's bash shell |
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Sun, 24 Jan 2010 06:40:24 -0700 |
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According to Ved Prakash Sonkar on 1/24/2010 5:26 AM:
> Hello GNU
> I am using UBUNTU's bash cell
> when I say
> $ expr 2+2
> its returning
> 2+2
> whats wrong
Nothing. That's how expr is designed to run, and standardized by POSIX.
It only performs arithmetic if the operator appears as a separate
argument, as in:
$ expr 2 + 2
4
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