Re: dc and bc in Important?

[Carey Evans <c.evans@clear.net.nz>]

andersee@et.byu.edu (Erik B. Andersen) writes:

[snip]

> For most math, expr works just fine.  Of course, expr is limited
> to integer math, but it works and is portable.

Actually, for integer math, bash or ksh works quite well.

bash$ a=41
bash$ let a+=1
bash$ echo $a
42

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