expr broken ?

[Michael Davidson]

In article <578 at lafayet.UUCP> rob at lafayet.UUCP (Rob Freyder) writes:
>I am running SCO Xenix 386 2.3.3 ... expr gives a syntax error if you try
>to use the * operator.  example
>
>expr 5 * 2
>
Actually this works just fine if there are no files in your current
directory .... For a more general solution try the following:

expr 5 \* 2