On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Timothy Bolz wrote:

> Is there a bash commnad similiar to scanf in C or would you have to use C for 
> this?
>
read foo
echo $foo
 
> Is there a way to print line #x ?  
> 
cat -n <file> |grep <line_number>

would work but i'm sure there's a better way.

> Is there a comand which does decimal math?
> 
bc || dc 
read the man pages before using dc as it uses a stack based calculator

HTH

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