Package: num-utils
Version: 0.5-11
Severity: minor
Thanks for the handy package.
I like applying basic math operations to standard
input and output.
The man page for numprocess currently says
"There is currently no way to take the number
found in the text stream and use it as the
numerator instead of the denominator of a
division operation."
but it seems to me that this warning may be
unnecessary.
Here's how to use the number found in the text
stream as both the numerator
echo 4 | numprocess /%3/
and denominator
echo 4 | numprocess /^-1,*3/
Thanks,
Kingsley
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