'expr' command not working with option *

2005-08-11 Thread Saran
To whom so ever it may concern.. Hi, I find that the expr command in my linux shell is not working for multiplying two arguments. please help me out how could i multiply two numbers in a shell and how could i use the command in my shell scripts.. when i type expr 2 * 3 it is giving syntax

Re: 'expr' command not working with option *

2005-08-11 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Saran on 8/11/2005 4:43 AM: To whom so ever it may concern.. Hi, I find that the expr command in my linux shell is not working for multiplying two arguments. please help me out how could i multiply two numbers in a shell and how

Re: [patch] enhancement for test -nt to support nanosecond timestamps where available

2005-08-11 Thread James Youngman
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 11:46:51PM +0100, James Youngman wrote: The attcached patch enhances test and [ to take account of the nanoseconds part of the mtime when evaluating test A -nt B and test A -ot B. Regards, James. 2005-07-17 James Youngman [EMAIL PROTECTED] * src/test.c

Re: renameutils 0.6.0

2005-08-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Oskar Liljeblad wrote: Brian Hall wrote: The order of the arguments passed my imv doesn't work: strace imv setup-gentoo-chroot execve(/usr/bin/mv, [mv, setup-gentoo-chroot, --, setup-gentoo-chroot.sh], [/* 68 vars */]) = 0 uname({sys=Linux, node=syrinx, ...}) = 0 mv: when