expr broken ?

Rob Freyder rob at lafayet.UUCP
Fri Aug 24 03:52:21 AEST 1990


I am running SCO Xenix 386 2.3.3 ... expr gives a syntax error if you try
to use the * operator.  example

expr 5 * 2

The above gives a syntax error whereas

expr 5 + 2 

gives 7 as you would expect.  The documentation says that * is the
multiplication operator... Can anybody else verify this error ?

For what it is worth, the divide operator works fine.
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