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Re: Recomended tutoial(s) on doing arithmetic in Bash scripts

From Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Recomended tutoial(s) on doing arithmetic in Bash scripts
Date 2017-03-06 12:20 +0100
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On 03/05/2017 04:12 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Another external tool at least as good as bc is wcalc and once that
> package gets installed just run wcalc at the command prompt and you'll
> have quite a load of examples show up.
>

For my current project I think dc, rather than expr or bc, is the better 
fit for my current project.

However, browsing thru http://w-calc.sourceforge.net/ and related pages 
indicates it might be a very nice alternative to the calculator that the 
default MATE package includes.

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Recomended tutoial(s) on doing arithmetic in Bash scripts Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-05 16:50 +0100
  Re: Recomended tutoial(s) on doing arithmetic in Bash scripts Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2017-03-05 17:30 +0100
  Re: Recomended tutoial(s) on doing arithmetic in Bash scripts <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-05 17:30 +0100
    Re: Recomended tutoial(s) on doing arithmetic in Bash scripts GiaThnYgeia <GiaThnYgeia@openmailbox.org> - 2017-03-05 19:20 +0100
      Re: Recomended tutoial(s) on doing arithmetic in Bash scripts <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-05 21:40 +0100
      Re: Recomended tutoial(s) on doing arithmetic in Bash scripts Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-03-06 14:40 +0100
        Re: Recomended tutoial(s) on doing arithmetic in Bash scripts <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-06 15:00 +0100
        Re: Recomended tutoial(s) on doing arithmetic in Bash scripts Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2017-03-06 16:00 +0100
          Re: Recomended tutoial(s) on doing arithmetic in Bash scripts <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-06 16:40 +0100
    Re: Recomended tutoial(s) on doing arithmetic in Bash scripts Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-05 19:20 +0100
      Re: Recomended tutoial(s) on doing arithmetic in Bash scripts Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-05 19:50 +0100
      Re: Recomended tutoial(s) on doing arithmetic in Bash scripts <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-05 21:30 +0100
        Re: Recomended tutoial(s) on doing arithmetic in Bash scripts Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-05 22:00 +0100
    Re: Recomended tutoial(s) on doing arithmetic in Bash scripts Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2017-03-05 23:20 +0100
      Re: Recomended tutoial(s) on doing arithmetic in Bash scripts Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-06 12:20 +0100
        Re: Recomended tutoial(s) on doing arithmetic in Bash scripts <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-06 12:40 +0100
  Re: Recomended tutoial(s) on doing arithmetic in Bash scripts David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-03-05 20:50 +0100
    Re: Recomended tutoial(s) on doing arithmetic in Bash scripts Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-05 21:50 +0100
      Re: Recomended tutoial(s) on doing arithmetic in Bash scripts David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-03-06 04:40 +0100
    Re: Recomended tutoial(s) on doing arithmetic in Bash scripts <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-05 22:30 +0100
  Re: Recomended tutoial(s) on doing arithmetic in Bash scripts Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2017-03-05 23:10 +0100

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