Re: Simple calculator
On Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 12:06:05PM -0600, Neale Pickett wrote:
> Maybe we could convince the bc maintainer to add a shell script to the
> bc package (call it "calc" or something else easy to remember) which
> does command-line calculations, then; it seems as though a lot of people
> would find such a thing useful.
>
> #!/bin/sh
> if [ $# = 0 ]; then
> echo "`basename $0`: must supply something to calculate!" >&2
> exit 1
> echo "$*" | bc -l | sed 's/0*$//'
Good idea.
James?
Michael
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