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expr(1)								       expr(1)

NAME
       expr - evaluate arguments as an expression

SYNOPSIS
       arguments

DESCRIPTION
       takes  arguments as an expression, evaluates, then writes the result on
       the standard output.  Terms in the  expression  must  be	 separated  by
       blanks.	 Characters  special  to the shell must be escaped.  Note that
       rather than the null string, is returned	 to  indicate  a  zero	value.
       Strings containing blanks or other special characters should be quoted.
       Integer-valued arguments can be preceded by a unary minus sign.	Inter‐
       nally, integers are treated as 32-bit, 2's complement numbers.

       The  operators  and keywords are listed below.  Characters that need to
       be escaped are preceded by The list is in order	of  increasing	prece‐
       dence with equal-precedence operators grouped within symbols.

       Returns the first expr  if it is neither null nor otherwise returns the
			 second expr.

			 In the UNIX 2003 environment, returns 0 if the	 first
			 expr is null or and the second expr is null.

       Returns the first expr if neither expr is null or otherwise returns

       If both arguments are integers, and if the comparison is satisfied,
			 expr  returns	otherwise  it returns expr returns the
			 result of an integer comparison if both arguments are
			 integers;  otherwise  returns the result of a lexical
			 comparison (note that and are identical, in that both
			 test for equality).

       Addition or subtraction of decimal integer-valued arguments.

       Multiplication, division or remainder of decimal
			 integer-valued arguments producing an integer result.

       The matching operator
			 compares  the first argument with the second argument
			 which must be a regular  expression.	expr  supports
			 the  Basic Regular Expression syntax (see regexp(5)),
			 except that  all  patterns  are  ``anchored''	(i.e.,
			 begin	with  and, therefore, is not a special charac‐
			 ter, in that context.	Normally, the matching	opera‐
			 tor  returns  the  number of characters matched (0 on
			 failure).  Alternatively, the pattern symbols can  be
			 used to return a portion of the first argument.

       The length of	 expr.

       Takes the substring of the first
			 expr, starting at the character specified by the sec‐
			 ond expr for the length given by the third expr.

       Returns the position in the first
			 expr which contains a character found in  the	second
			 expr.

       Match is a prefix operator equivalent to the infix operator

       Grouping symbols. Any  expression  can  be  placed  within parentheses.
			 Parentheses can be nested to a depth of as  specified
			 in the header file

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
   Environment Variables
       determines  the	collating  sequence used in evaluating regular expres‐
       sions and the behavior  of  the	relational  operators  when  comparing
       string values.

       determines  the	interpretation	of  text  as single- and/or multi-byte
       characters, and the characters matched by character  class  expressions
       in regular expressions.

       determines the language in which messages are displayed.

       If  or  is  not	specified  in  the  environment or is set to the empty
       string, the value of is used as a default for each unspecified or empty
       variable.  If is not specified or is set to the empty string, a default
       of "C" (see lang(5)) is used instead  of	 If  any  internationalization
       variable	 contains an invalid setting, behaves as if all international‐
       ization variables are set to "C" (see environ(5)).

       If is set to it enables the UNIX 2003 Standard environment.

   International Code Set Support
       Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported.

RETURN VALUE
       As a side effect of expression evaluation, expr returns	the  following
       exit values:

	      Expression is neither null nor zero.

	      Expression is null or zero.

	      Invalid expression.

	      An error occurred while evaluating the expression.

DIAGNOSTICS
       Operator or operand errors

       Arithmetic attempted on a string

EXAMPLES
       Add 1 to the shell variable

       For  equal  to  either  or  just return the last segment of a path name
       (i.e., Beware of alone as an argument because expr interprets it as the
       division operator (see below):

       A  better  representation of the previous example.  The addition of the
       characters eliminates any ambiguity about  the  division	 operator  and
       simplifies the whole expression:

       Return the number of characters in

WARNINGS
       After argument processing by the shell, expr cannot tell the difference
       between an operator and an operand except by the value.	If is  an  the
       command:

       resembles:

       as  the arguments are passed to expr (and they will all be taken as the
       operator).  The following works:

AUTHOR
       was developed by OSF and HP.

SEE ALSO
       sh(1), test(1), environ(5), lang(5), regexp(5).

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
								       expr(1)
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