tag 67160 notabug close 67160 stop On 14/11/2023 06:42, r n wrote:
I have a lenovo slim 3 chromebook with linux version 5.15.130-etc and when expr encounter an asterisk for multiplying args, it return a syntax error unexpected argument 'code 1'. All other arithmetic operators are correctly interpreted. Please let me know if you need more information to reproduce the issue.
This sounds like the '*' is not appropriately quoted, and the shell is expanding it. For details see: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#expr-2-_002a-3-does-not-work thanks, Pádraig
