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Re: substring expansion in Bourne?

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From: Michael Lemke
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 19:42
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In article <Bww8D4.6FL@ddsw1.mcs.com> dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (DWT) writes:
>aswx266@chpc.utexas.edu (Michael Lemke) wrote in
><1992Oct24.052313.11426@chpc.utexas.edu>:
>
>| 	$ newdir=`tr $newpath : '.*/*$'`
>
>Surely Mr. Lemke meant "expr", not "tr".
>
Oops.  Sure I did.  Sorry.
-- 
Michael Lemke
Astronomy, UT Austin, Texas
(michael@io.as.utexas.edu or UTSPAN::UTADNX::IO::MICHAEL [SPAN])
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From: aswx266@chpc.utexas.edu (Michael Lemke)
Subject: Re: substring expansion in Bourne?
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