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		icebraining on July 1, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cicada – Unix shell written in Rust `$ echo $((1 + 2 * 3 - 4)) 3`

vbernat on July 1, 2017 [–]

With zsh, you can even save a few keystrokes.

  function c() {
    echo $(($@))
  }
  alias c='noglob c'

jplatte on July 2, 2017 | [–]

zsh can handle floating point arithmetic too, while bash can't.

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