bug-coreutils
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

bug#17450: multiplication bug


From: Bernhard Voelker
Subject: bug#17450: multiplication bug
Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 19:50:03 +0200
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0

On 05/09/2014 05:51 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#expr-2-_002a-3-does-not-work

Hi Padraig,

I don't know if this was discussed before: what do you think about
adding a sentence to the FAQ that some shells allow to turn off
globbing?  E.g. in bash with 'set -f' or 'set -o noglob':

  $ ( set -o noglob && expr 2 * 2 )
  4

Have a nice day,
Berny





reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]