bash calculator using a perl one liner bc i was bored
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pcalc.sh
1#!/usr/bin/env bash
2
3if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then
4 echo "Usage: pcalc [PROBLEM]"
5 exit 1
6fi
7
8# printf cmd will escape spaces & add quotes
9# so 1+2 and 1 + 2 will have the same result
10# (i think)
11problem=$(printf "%q" "$@")
12
13# if $problem contains spaces, trim it down
14[[ "$problem" =~ [[:space:]] ]]; problem2="${problem//[[:space:]]/}"
15
16# if $problem contains an "x", change to "*"
17# sometimes i type "x" for multiplication
18# perl by default does something else with "x"
19[[ "$problem" =~ x ]]; problem2="${problem2//x/*}"
20
21# fixes some weird thing where a backslash
22# would fuck with the math
23[[ "$problem" =~ \/ ]]; problem2="${problem2//\\}"
24
25# -l adds a newline
26# -e executes $problem
27perl -le "print $problem2"