in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
wrote CD Baby thusly...
>
> What simple built-in command-line tools are available if I want to
> just do some simple math on the command line?
>
> If I'm there in a shell, and need to know what 17 times 36 equals?
In addition to [bd]c(1) ...
Perl:
perl -e 'print +(17 * 36)'
awk:
echo |awk '{print 17 * 36}'
- Parv
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