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What’s bc? Is it Bit Counter? I just skimmed the website and gh readme looking for a definition of BC, and I’m still unsure. Only clue I found is that it has
by FractalHQ 4y ago
What’s bc? Is it Bit Counter? I just skimmed the website and gh readme looking for a definition of BC, and I’m still unsure. Only clue I found is that it has something to do with calculators….
- lapcat 4y agoI can't resist, because this is the perfect opportunity... RTFM
- DonaldPShimoda 4y agoGNU `bc` is a command-line arbitrary-precision calculator language [1]. It seems the parent comment's author implemented an alternative version that is now shipping in macOS, presumably because Apple doesn't like the GNU licenses. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/bc/manual/html_mono/bc.html https://www.gnu.org/software/bc/manual/html_mono/bc.html
- gavinhoward 4y agobc is a standard utility on POSIX systems. It's kind of expected that people know about it, like it's expected they know about awk or grep. bc is a little less known, though.
- imoverclocked 4y agobc is a staple in my cli work! Thank you for bc!
- gavinhoward 4y agoYou're welcome!