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RE: Obvious Tip: Calling Windows "Calc" from Prompt
- From: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 18:42:27 +0100
- Subject: RE: Obvious Tip: Calling Windows "Calc" from Prompt
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of zzapper
> Sent: 06 August 2004 18:34
> On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 22:53:20 +0100, wrote:
>
> You can also script bc
> echo 2+4 | bc -l
For the quickest command-line calculator, if you're using bash you can
just use arithmetic expansion, e.g:
dk@mace /davek> echo $(( 5 * 23 + 17 ))
132
dk@mace /davek>
cheers,
DaveK
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