Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 14:34:29 -0400 From: Parv <parv@pair.com> To: CD Baby <cdbaby@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: command-line calculator? Message-ID: <20040625183429.GA10616@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <36fb6de804062508417917d0b8@mail.gmail.com> References: <36fb6de804062508417917d0b8@mail.gmail.com>
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in message <36fb6de804062508417917d0b8@mail.gmail.com>,
wrote CD Baby thusly...
>
> What simple built-in command-line tools are available if I want to
> just do some simple math on the command line?
>
> If I'm there in a shell, and need to know what 17 times 36 equals?
In addition to [bd]c(1) ...
Perl:
perl -e 'print +(17 * 36)'
awk:
echo |awk '{print 17 * 36}'
- Parv
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