Hello all, Further to my earlier message about sending little snippets of code for other people's consideration, here's the script I wrote to calculate math statements across a group of values. I did it because, as you probably have experienced, you do a "ps" or a "df" command, and want to see the sum or average process or filesystem size, respectively. Well, this script allows you to perform basic mathematical operations against a group of values (either on STDIN or as files on the command-line) and get a result.
It's attached here, but if the mailing list chops it off, you can download it at http://nachbaur.com/resources/source/misc/gm-1.03 -- /* Michael A. Nachbaur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * http://nachbaur.com/pgpkey.asc */ "The dew," he observed, "has clearly fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning."
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Description: Perl program