expr - 예제

What is expr?

expr evaluates the given expression.

4 expr Examples

1. Perform string matching operations

expr command helps us to perform different levels of string matching operations with the operator ‘:’ as shown below,

# partial match and returns the number of characters matched.
$ expr linux : lin
3

# the condition is string 2 entirely should match in string 1.
$ expr linux : linx
0

# regular expression to match any number of characters
$ expr linux : '.*'
5

# to print the matched characters instead of number of matching positions
$ expr linux : '..\(...\)'
nux

Note : expr command should have the space between the operator and operands.

2. Compare the two expressions

Using expr command, you can compare two expressions (numbers or strings). It returns either 0 for failure or 1 for success as shown below

$ var1='10'
$ var2='20'

# matching numbers with '='.
$ expr $var1 = $var2
0

# displays 1 when arg1 is less than arg2
$ expr $var1 \< $var2
1

# display 1 when arg1 is not equal to arg2
$ expr $var1 \!= $var2
1

3. Perform the integer arithmetic operations

You can do the integer arithmetic operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and modulus. In the below example, two numbers are multiplied and the result is produced as follows.

$ expr 5 \* 2
10

4. Increment the value inside the script

The example below increments the $count variable value to 1 inside the shell script.

echo $count
count=`expr $count + 1`

Syntax and Options

expr EXPRESSION
expr OPTION

Short Option	Long Option	Option Description
	–help	to display help page and exit
	–version	to display version information and exit
ARG1 * ARG2		Interger arithmetic operator for multiplication
ARG1 / ARG2		Interger arithmetic operator for division
ARG1 + ARG2		Interger arithmetic operator for addition
ARG1 – ARG2		Interger arithmetic operator for substraction
ARG1 % ARG2		Interger arithmetic operator for modulus operation
ARG1 = ARG2		Comparision operator to check both expressions are equals
ARG1 < ARG2		Comparision operator to check arg1 is less than arg2
ARG1 <= ARG2		Comparision operator to check arg1 is lesser than or equal to arg2
ARG1 > ARG2		Comparision operator to check arg1 is greater than arg2
ARG1 >= ARG2		Comparision operator to check arg1 is greater than or equal to arg2
ARG1 != ARG2		Comparision operator to check arg1 is not equal to arg2
ARG1 : ARG2		String matching operator
ARG1 & ARG2		Conditional operator which returns arg1 when arg1 and arg2 are not 0 or NUL. otherwise 0.
ARG1 | ARG2		Conditional operator which returns arg1 if it not 0 or NUL otherwise arg2 is returned.