I’ve been appreciating awk more and more lately as a desktop calculator. There are things dc and bc can’t handle, that awk will cheerfully compete for me. Of al

I’ve been appreciating awk more and more lately as a desktop calculator. There are things dc and bc can’t handle, that awk will cheerfully compete for me. Of all the tools I can expect to be present on a Linux machine, it gives me the easiest way to compute a logarithm in a shell pipeline.