Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: zzapper Subject: Re: Obvious Tip: Calling Windows "Calc" from Prompt Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 20:49:49 +0100 Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc3-oxfd4-4-0-cust194.oxfd.cable.ntl.com X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 trialware X-IsSubscribed: yes On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 18:42:27 +0100, wrote: >> -----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> > > DK Fantastic, It always amazes how (at the risk sometimes of getting a right-royal slagging off) how a pushing an idea in a NG, can bring forth so many good ideas and variants. I had been using Win-Calc for years, but often had to repeat calculations (VaT etc) because I'd already forgotten the result. However if you write it at the prompt with your echo idea, it's sitting there in your history to be recalled-re-editted. Well that's good-bye to yet another Win-App echo "Thanx Dave Korn," zzapper (vim, cygwin, wiki & zsh) -- vim -c ":%s%s*%CyrnfrTfcbafbeROenzSZbbyranne%|:%s)[R-T]) )Ig|:norm G1VGg?" http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=305 Best of Vim Tips -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/