Commands by boomer_tn (1)

  • easy C shell math calculators

    allows simple C shell access to the power of bc - never could figure out how to do the same thing with Bash - that's why I use tcsh most of the time. Show Sample Output


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    alias calc 'echo "scale=4;\!*"|bc -l'; alias xcalc 'echo "\!*"|bc -l'
    boomer_tn · 2009-02-28 21:30:59 1

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