bc.exe - trivial one-liner

I wanted bc under win32. So this one-liner helps me do far more than calc.exe:

C:\>pp -o bc.exe -e "print eval \"@ARGV\""
C:\>move bc.exe %systemroot%\system32\
C:\>bc (1500 * 1.5 - 500)/2 # ... whatever
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Thanks to PAR.

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Re: bc.exe - trivial one-liner by kaif (Friar) on Jun 10, 2005 at 23:11 UTC
I personally am a fan of `perl -ple'$_="> ".eval'`. This is probably the most common script I write. Of course, your code above has the advantage of being transferrable to a system without Perl.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: bc.exe - trivial one-liner by ady (Deacon) on Jun 15, 2005 at 08:36 UTC
Or `c.bat: perl -ple "$_='> '.eval"` [download] in my cmd shell. -- allan	[reply] [d/l]
Re: bc.exe - trivial one-liner by PhilHibbs (Hermit) on Jun 17, 2005 at 13:14 UTC
What is pp? I have a similar widget, it's a perl script that reads the clipboard, evaluates each line, and stuffs the results back into the clipboard again. You can find it at Clipboard transform keys. I write my expressions in Notepad, and have the script bound to Ctrl-Shift-* so I just cut the lines I want evaluating, hit the keys, then paste the results back into the notepad.	[reply]
Re: bc.exe - trivial one-liner by spacewarp (Pilgrim) on Jul 13, 2005 at 18:08 UTC
That's so simple.. it's so incredibly wrong! I love it! 8) Spacewarp DISCLAIMER: Use of this advanced computing technology does not imply an endorsement of Western industrial civilization.	[reply]
Re: bc.exe - trivial one-liner by perlmoth (Hermit) on Jul 13, 2005 at 12:26 UTC
I got confused by this. When you wrote "Thanks to PAR", I thought that you were thanking another monk who gave you the idea for this. I didn't realise that you meant the PAR application, which this snippet requires.	[reply]