trouble with expr

[James Van Artsdalen]

In article <717 at yabbie.rmit.oz>, radjg at yabbie.rmit.oz (Jordan Green) writes:
> I have been trying to use expr(C) to do some integer manipulation and find
> that I cannot get the multiplication to work.

> expr 2 * 3

> simply returns
> 2 * 3

I'll bet you're entering

$ expr "2 * 3"

instead of

$ expr 2 "*" 3

The first sees the single argument as a string, whereas the second sees
three arguments and an arithmetic expression.
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