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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Eric Mariaud <eric.mariaud <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 17:46:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>, Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>, 28461 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eric.mariaud <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#28461: erreurs
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 20:37:27 -0700

On 14/09/17 23:41, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 2017-09-14 11:45 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>>> On 2017-09-14 11:43 AM, Eric Mariaud wrote:
>>>> eric <at> Eric-Xub:~/Bureau$ expr 2 * 3
>>>> expr: erreur de syntaxe
>>
>> Well, we could try to improve the error diagnostics.
>>
>> WDYT?
> 
> Very good idea.
> 
> Perhaps something like the attached? (not fully tested...)
> 
> -assaf
> 
That's a good improvement!

<bikeshedding>
I'd change:

s/missing more parameters after/missing parameter after/

This would be fine even in the case of multi param
operations like 'match' and 'substr'

thanks!
Pádraig.
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