Re: substring expansion in Bourne?

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From: DWT
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 17:24

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aswx266@chpc.utexas.edu (Michael Lemke) wrote in
<1992Oct24.052313.11426@chpc.utexas.edu>:

| 	$ newdir=`tr $newpath : '.*/*$'`

Surely Mr. Lemke meant "expr", not "tr".

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