On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:17 PM, DEEPESH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i want to implement a calculator using shell scrpting to overload the > inbulit calculator using bc command please help me with the startinhh > iam new to unix programming
Hi Deepesh, I'll tell you how you can use bc to return the result of an expression (you can build a UI from there). $ echo "2 + 2" | bc and this will return 4. You can store that in a variable and then return it whichever way you want. HTH Sharad --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- group http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
