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| author | wiz <wiz@NetBSD.org> | 2002-09-25 15:18:36 +0000 |
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| committer | wiz <wiz@NetBSD.org> | 2002-09-25 15:18:36 +0000 |
| commit | 14dfaa4b033ab5f50fa81fc0a4d1d6cfacb8abcb (patch) | |
| tree | ad4ef890522dc88c4323825ace0ae73b8dcca61d /bin/expr/expr.1 | |
| parent | 9e31b4484603b1e062f2c09d6ead0c5a8483f421 (diff) | |
New policy: New sentences start on a new line.
Patches by Robert Elz <kre at munnari oz au>, with minimal changes by me.
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/expr/expr.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | bin/expr/expr.1 | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/bin/expr/expr.1 b/bin/expr/expr.1 index e947f1f36c1..15736401fef 100644 --- a/bin/expr/expr.1 +++ b/bin/expr/expr.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: expr.1,v 1.20 2002/02/19 21:14:45 pooka Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: expr.1,v 1.21 2002/09/25 15:18:39 wiz Exp $ .\" .\" Written by J.T. Conklin <jtc@netbsd.org>. .\" Public domain. @@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ operator matches .Ar expr1 against .Ar expr2 , -which must be a regular expression. The regular expression is anchored +which must be a regular expression. +The regular expression is anchored to the beginning of the string with an implicit .Dq ^ . .Pp @@ -142,7 +143,8 @@ by This implementation of .Nm internally uses 64 bit represenation of integers and checks for -over- and underflows. It also treats / (division mark) and +over- and underflows. +It also treats / (division mark) and option '--' correctly depending upon context. .Pp .Nm @@ -150,7 +152,8 @@ on other systems (including .Nx up to and including .Nx 1.5 ) -might be not so graceful. Arithmetic results might be arbitrarily +might be not so graceful. +Arithmetic results might be arbitrarily limited on such systems, most commonly to 32 bit quantities. This means such .Nm @@ -179,7 +182,8 @@ Some .Nm implementations don't recognize it at all, others might ignore it even in cases where doing so results in syntax -error. There should be same result for both following examples, +error. +There should be same result for both following examples, but it might not always be: .Bl -enum -compact -offset indent .It |
