Re: Re: •Re: Re: Simple command line calculator

You can make this take a command argument very easily. In fact you can replace the expr function with this:

function calc {
   perl -ple '$_=eval'
}

function expr {
   echo "$1" | calc
}
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Re: Re: Re: •Re: Re: Simple command line calculator by Juerd (Abbot) on Mar 19, 2002 at 19:55 UTC
How about a Perl solution? `perl -le'print eval shift'` [download] Or, to slurp all arguments: `perl -le'print eval "@ARGV"'` [download] U28geW91IGNhbiBhbGwgcm90MTMgY W5kIHBhY2soKS4gQnV0IGRvIHlvdS ByZWNvZ25pc2UgQmFzZTY0IHdoZW4 geW91IHNlZSBpdD8gIC0tIEp1ZXJk	[reply] [d/l] [select]