Re: seeking thru a string in a shell script

On 2007-01-17, Chris the Hunter wrote:
expr length $str

Didn't work at my box, but thanks all the same

Probably because the variable should be quoted:

expr length "$str"

It's unlikely that a Linux distro would have an old version of expr
without the length operator.

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