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Re: Trimming priority:standard



On Mon, 2014-09-15 at 14:53 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 03:49:11PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> > bc is the standard Unix calculator, normally a dc frontend,
> > and used in *a lot* of scripts.
> 
> Is there any way of verifying or even reasonably estimating how common it is
> used?  *Within* debian, sadly it's hard to ascertain via codesearch as 'bc' is
> too short, but /bc => http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=%2Fbc
> 
> I must admit I've never seen it used in 3rd party scripts in my entire career
> as a sysadmin.

It is used in one place in a Linux kernel build
(kernel/time/timeconst.bc).

Ben.

> > And yes, bc is also the primary interactive calculator,
> > for things beyond what $((…)) can do.
> 
> We've got python in priority:standard.
> 
> 

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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