1130b656e5
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!) avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long. Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been insane otherwise.
133 lines
4.4 KiB
Groff
133 lines
4.4 KiB
Groff
.\" -*- nroff -*-
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.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Winning Strategies, Inc.
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
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.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
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.\" This product includes software developed by Winning Strategies, Inc.
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.\" 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products
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.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd July 3, 1993
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.Dt EXPR 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm expr
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.Nd evaluate expression
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm expr
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.Ar expression
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm expr
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utility evaluates
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.Ar expression
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and writes the result on standard output.
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.Pp
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All operators are separate arguments to the
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.Nm expr
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utility.
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Characters special to the command interpreter must be escaped.
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.Pp
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Operators are listed below in order of increasing precedence.
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Operators with equal precedence are grouped within { } symbols.
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It Ar expr1 Li | Ar expr2
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Returns the evaluation of
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.Ar expr1
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if it is neither an empty string nor zero;
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otherwise, returns the evaluation of
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.Ar expr2 .
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.It Ar expr1 Li & Ar expr2
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Returns the evaluation of
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.Ar expr1
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if neither expression evaluates to an empty string or zero;
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otherwise, returns zero.
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.It Ar expr1 Li "{=, >, >=, <, <=, !=}" Ar expr2
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Returns the results of integer comparison if both arguments are integers;
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otherwise, returns the results of string comparison using the locale-specific
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collation sequence.
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The result of each comparison is 1 if the specified relation is true,
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or 0 if the relation is false.
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.It Ar expr1 Li "{+, -}" Ar expr2
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Returns the results of addition or subtraction of integer-valued arguments.
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.It Ar expr1 Li "{*, /, %}" Ar expr2
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Returns the results of multiplication, integer division, or remainder of integer-valued arguments.
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.It Ar expr1 Li : Ar expr2
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The
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.Dq \:
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operator matches
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.Ar expr1
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against
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.Ar expr2 ,
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which must be a regular expression. The regular expression is anchored
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to the beginning of the string with an implicit
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.Dq ^ .
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.Pp
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If the match succeeds and the pattern contains at least one regular
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expression subexpression
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.Dq "\e(...\e)" ,
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the string corresponding to
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.Dq "\e1"
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is returned;
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otherwise the matching operator returns the number of characters matched.
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If the match fails and the pattern contains a regular expression subexpression
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the null string is returned;
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otherwise 0.
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.El
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.Pp
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Parentheses are used for grouping in the usual manner.
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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.Bl -enum
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.It
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The following example adds one to the variable a.
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.Dl a=`expr $a + 1`
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.It
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The following example returns the filename portion of a pathname stored
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in variable a. The // characters act to eliminate ambiguity with the
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division operator.
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.Dl expr "//$a" Li : '.*/\e(.*\e)'
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.It
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The following example returns the number of characters in variable a.
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.Dl expr $a Li : '.*'
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.El
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.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
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The
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.Nm expr
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utility exits with one of the following values:
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.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
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.It 0
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the expression is neither an empty string nor 0.
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.It 1
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the expression is an empty string or 0.
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.It 2
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the expression is invalid.
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.El
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The
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.Nm expr
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utility conforms to
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.St -p1003.2 .
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