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authorwiz <wiz@NetBSD.org>2002-09-25 15:18:36 +0000
committerwiz <wiz@NetBSD.org>2002-09-25 15:18:36 +0000
commit14dfaa4b033ab5f50fa81fc0a4d1d6cfacb8abcb (patch)
treead4ef890522dc88c4323825ace0ae73b8dcca61d /bin/expr/expr.1
parent9e31b4484603b1e062f2c09d6ead0c5a8483f421 (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.114
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