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@tgrez tgrez commented Jun 11, 2025

Fixes #8063

Changed parsing of expr substr arguments, so they have a higher precedence than whatever follows. Before those changes the parser was too eager and gave incorrect results when expr substr arguments were followed by bash conditional ("!="). The script used to reproduce the issue now gives the correct result.

Looking forward to feedback for this short PR :)

Fixes for index, length, match will come, if actually needed, in future PR(s).

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Skipping an intermittent issue tests/misc/tee (passes in this run but fails in the 'main' branch)

@cakebaker cakebaker merged commit 3a087aa into uutils:main Jun 12, 2025
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Thanks for your PR!

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expr substr "$list" $len2 1 != " " different behavior with the GNU implementation
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