Hi The manpage I have, with the following footer:
expr 5.97 August 2006 EXPR(1) states that `expr ARG1 - ARG2` should print the "arithmetic difference of ARG1 and ARG2" but I have: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ expr 5 - 7 -2 Of course, five minus seven is negative two, but the _difference_ between five and seven is positive two, since differences are always positive. May I suggest you correct your manual to read: "subtraction of ARG1 and ARG2" or some other more appropriate word which describes the functionality of the program. HTH Tom Tom Vajzovic Postgraduate Researcher in Physics This email is intended solely for the addressee. It may contain private and confidential information. If you are not the intended addressee, please take no action based on it nor show a copy to anyone. In this case, please reply to this email to highlight the error. Opinions and information in this email that do not relate to the official business of Nottingham Trent University shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by the University. Nottingham Trent University has taken steps to ensure that this email and any attachments are virus-free, but we do advise that the recipient should check that the email and its attachments are actually virus free. This is in keeping with good computing practice. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
