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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting what is wrong with this expr line Post 302356198 by shadow_boi on Friday 25th of September 2009 12:29:13 AM
Old 09-25-2009
what is wrong with this expr line

It keeps giving me expr syntax error.
Code:
expr "${etherline[*]}" : ’.*no match found’ 2>&1 >/dev/null

Thanks in advance.
 

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hw_GetObject - Object record

SYNOPSIS
mixed hw_getobject (int $connection, mixed $objectID, [string $query]) DESCRIPTION
Gets an object record. If the second parameter is an array of integer the function will PARAMETERS
o $connection - The connection identifier. o $objectID - The object identifier, or an array of identifiers. o $query - The query string has the following syntax: <expr> ::= "(" <expr> ")" | "!" &lt;expr> | /* NOT */ <expr> "||" <expr> | /* OR */ <expr> "&amp;&amp;" <expr> | /* AND */ <attribute> <operator> <value> <attribute> ::= /* any attribute name (Title, Author, DocumentType ...) */ <operator> ::= "=" | /* equal */ "<" | /* less than (string compare) */ ">" | /* greater than (string compare) */ "~" /* regular expression matching */ RETURN VALUES
Returns the object record for the given object ID if the second parameter is an integer. If the second parameter is an array of integer the function will return an array of object records. In such a case the last parameter is also evaluated which is a query string. SEE ALSO
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