Re:A deeper introduction to Unix DC
by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday June 08, 2020 @05:59PM
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> Many GNU/Linux distros (at least Debian and RHEL) install neither `dc` nor `bc` by default, afaik.
Yeah, I recently wrote a script that used bc and immediately discovered that it didn't work on at least Arch Linux (and I think others, although I only seem to have added it to the Arch ansible config...); conveniently, I only needed the most trivial of calculations, so I just shifted to awk, which has better default availability.
Yeah, I recently wrote a script that used bc and immediately discovered that it didn't work on at least Arch Linux (and I think others, although I only seem to have added it to the Arch ansible config...); conveniently, I only needed the most trivial of calculations, so I just shifted to awk, which has better default availability.