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authorSevan Janiyan <sevan@FreeBSD.org>2016-10-05 19:26:35 +0000
committerSevan Janiyan <sevan@FreeBSD.org>2016-10-05 19:26:35 +0000
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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) MFC after: 5 days Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8104
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=306719
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@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.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 .