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How to build a terminal based calculator in Linux.

Faheem    Linux     bash, bashrc, calculator, Linux

To build a terminal-based calculator, add the following function to your ~/.bashrc file.

vi ~/.bashrc

function calc
{
echo “${1}”|bc -l;
}

Reload Bash profile using the following command:

$ source .bashrc

Now run calc from terminal as :

$ calc 4+7*9-10/5

You will get the following output:

65.00000000000000000000

Easy enough?

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