DervishD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I would like to know (if you have such information, of course) which
> 'expr's out there support 'substr' expressions in addition to the
> GNU coreutils one, of course.

Sorry, haven't a clue.  But you shouldn't need substr: you can always
get the equivalent by using pattern matching.  E.g., instead of this:

expr substr "X$string" 3 5

you use this:

expr "X$string" : 'X.\(.....\)'


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