trouble with expr

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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
>
>All the other arithmetical functions seem to work so what am I doing wrong with the multiplication?
>
That's the clue.  At a guess, I'd say you need to escape the "*" from the shell.

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