One trick I came up with recently: I found myself needing to add up a column of numbers, but there were so many that I started losing precision to awk's use of

One trick I came up with recently: I found myself needing to add up a column of numbers, but there were so many that I started losing precision to awk's use of floats for all numbers. I wound up augmenting with `dc`[0] - something like (borrowing your example, and working from memory): awk ' BEGIN { print "0" } $4 > 3 { print $3"+p" } ' | dc [0] https://www.gnu.org/software/bc/manual/dc-1.05/html_mono/dc.html https://www.gnu.org/software/bc/manual/dc-1.05/html_mono/dc....