Dear Elegant, Please be specific about what program implements the "expr substr" command. The phrase "the command line" is not singly defined on any Unix (or Unix-like) system extant today.
In this case, it's TCSH, which is not the default Cygwin shell (BASH is). Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 05:30 2002-04-23, Gilgamesh Nootebos wrote: >Michael A Chase wrote: >>On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 07:05:06 +0100 Jim George >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>Can someone tell me which package provides the substr command line routine? >> >>>In this case, you probably want sed, gawk, or Perl, there is no UNIX >>>command 'substr'. > > From the commandline you can use 'expr substr <string> <begin> <length>' > >It's crude and OT but I just happened to need it today so I remembered this. > >-- >Gilgamesh Nootebos (Elegant Relational Development) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/