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authorsevan <sevan@FreeBSD.org>2016-10-16 23:12:07 +0000
committersevan <sevan@FreeBSD.org>2016-10-16 23:12:07 +0000
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MFC r306719:
Document origins of expr & authors http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=PWB1/usr/man/man1/expr.1 PR: 173979 Approved by: bcr (mentor) Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8104
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.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd February 25, 2012
+.Dd October 5, 2016
.Dt EXPR 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -309,3 +309,19 @@ these arguments are treated just as their respective string values.
The
.Fl e
flag is an extension.
+.Sh HISTORY
+An
+.Nm
+utility first appeared in the Programmer's Workbench (PWB/UNIX).
+A public domain version of
+.Nm
+written by
+.An Pace Willisson Aq Mt pace@blitz.com
+appeared in
+.Bx 386 0.1 .
+.Sh AUTHORS
+Initial implementation by
+.An Pace Willisson Aq Mt pace@blitz.com
+was largely rewritten by
+.An -nosplit
+.An J.T. Conklin Aq Mt jtc@FreeBSD.org .
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