Why doesn't this work ?

[Jon Ivar Tr|stheim]

Why does not the following command work in a Bourne shell script ?

	USERID=`expr "`id`" : 'uid=\([0-9]*\)(.*'`

The shell does not feed the whole argument list to 'expr(1)', so I get
the following error message:

	sh:   : 'uid=\([0-9]*\)(.*': execute permission denied

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