Just try $ expr --version expr (GNU sh-utils) 2.0.11 Written by Mike Parker.
Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Greetings Uwe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randall R Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Jim George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 5:47 PM Subject: Re: substr > 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/ > -- 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/
