Re: Simple calculator

[Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>]

"Dr. Michael Meskes" <meskes@online-club.de> writes:

> 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.

Just don't call it calc.  We already have one in apcalc.

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