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Commands tagged calculation

Terminal - Commands tagged calculation - 5 results

calc() { awk 'BEGIN { OFMT="%f"; print '"$*"'; exit}'; }

2009-12-25 19:08:16

User: cfajohnson

Functions: awk

Tags: calc calculation floating point

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floating point shell calculator

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b(){ echo "scale=${2:-2}; $1" | bc -l; }

2009-12-23 23:44:31

User: dadi

Functions: bc echo

Tags: calc calculation floating point

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floating point bash calculator w/o precision

terms inclosing '()' must be enclosed by "" (soft quotes)

bash variables must be referenced: b $x/$y

ugly bracket checking (balanced, fractions...)

default precision 2

tzwatch

2009-08-08 01:26:08

User: terry2wa

Tags: timezone calculation utc

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get time in other timezones

On Ubuntu, if tzwatch is installed, then you can call up in terminal the output for every time zone configured in gWorldClock.

tzwatch

2009-08-08 01:25:50

User: terry2wa

Tags: timezone calculation utc

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get time in other timezones

On Ubuntu, if tzwatch is installed, then you can call up in terminal the output for every time zone configured in gWorldClock.

let utime=$offsetutc*3600+$(date --utc +%s)+3600; date --utc --date=@${utime}

2009-08-07 23:12:14

User: flokra

Functions: date

Tags: timezone calculation utc

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get time in other timezones

prints out the time for the timezone specified in $offsetutc. So you have less to think about things like: "I'm in utc+4 and my friend in utc-7, can I call him now or will I wake him?"

Note: $offsetutc should be an integer between -12 and 12.