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diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index b97b6602f..66f223b29 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2007-09-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * coreutils.texi (expr invocation): Correct description of relative + operator precedence. Reported by hanpingtian@gmail.com. + 2007-08-25 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> Avoid case-insensitive clash in one-page-per-node html docs. diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index ce40f4ec0..c11c06ab1 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -10804,7 +10804,7 @@ Exit status: @cindex expressions, string @command{expr} supports pattern matching and other string operators. These -have lower precedence than both the numeric and relational operators (in +have higher precedence than both the numeric and relational operators (in the next sections). @table @samp @@ -10884,8 +10884,9 @@ To make @command{expr} interpret keywords as strings, you must use the @cindex expressions, numeric @command{expr} supports the usual numeric operators, in order of increasing -precedence. The string operators (previous section) have lower precedence, -the connectives (next section) have higher. +precedence. These numeric operators have higher precedence than the +string operators described in the previous section, and lower precedence +than the connectives (next section). @table @samp @@ -10918,7 +10919,7 @@ integers; an error occurs if this cannot be done. @cindex relations, numeric or string @command{expr} supports the usual logical connectives and relations. These -are higher precedence than either the string or numeric operators +have lower precedence than the string and numeric operators (previous sections). Here is the list, lowest-precedence operator first. @table @samp |