In article <717 at yabbie.rmit.oz>, radjg at yabbie.rmit.oz (Jordan Green) writes: > I have been trying to use expr(C) to do some integer manipulation and find > that I cannot get the multiplication to work. > > expr 2 * 3 > Backslash the "*"--as in expr 2 \* 3 (The shell is interpreting the asterisk as a normal shell metacharacter) Tim Evans