Radu Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I get a syntax error when using $expr x * y. This is the only operation
> that does not work with expr (multiplication).

Because the shell is expanding your use of `*'.
Use one of these instead:

  expr 2 \* 2

  expr '2 * 2'


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