Re: Question about expr

2010-03-27 Thread perryh
Manish Jain wrote: > When you execute a script ... the aliases are > ignored. Is there some way to fix this ... Search for expand_aliases in the bash manpage. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Re: Question about expr

2010-03-27 Thread Manish Jain
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 27), Manish Jain said: I am used to the normal GNU-version of expr (also available on Solaris) and much prefer it over the FreeBSD version. The GNU version allows internal commands like length, substring and others which make it much easier to work wit

Re: Question about expr

2010-03-26 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 27), Manish Jain said: > I am used to the normal GNU-version of expr (also available on Solaris) > and much prefer it over the FreeBSD version. The GNU version allows > internal commands like length, substring and others which make it much > easier to work with. Is there

Question about expr

2010-03-26 Thread Manish Jain
Hello all, I am used to the normal GNU-version of expr (also available on Solaris) and much prefer it over the FreeBSD version. The GNU version allows internal commands like length, substring and others which make it much easier to work with. Is there any way I can replace FreeBSD's native e