Unix Tip: More on bc

By Sandra Henry-Stocker, ITworld

In a previous column, we looked at bc, the surprisingly high precision and big value capable Unix tool that you will find on most versions of Unix today. The bc utility is not just a command line tool, however. You can also write numerically intensive scripts in bc. The tool incorporates enough syntax to assign values to variables, write and call functions, collect responses from users and print annotated results. ...continue reading 'Unix Tip: More on bc'