I have 10 bit signed binary numbers. I know two shell / bash ways to convert them to decimals yet signedness is not recognized. 1111101010 should be converted to -22 and not 1002. echo "ibase=2;o...

How to assign this result to a shell variable? Input: echo '1+1' | bc -l Output: 2 Attempts: (didn't work) #!bin/sh a=echo '1+1' | bc -l echo $a

Short version: I'm trying to get something like this to work in c using piping: echo 3+5 | bc Longer version: Following simple instructions on pipes at http://beej.us/guide/bgipc/output/html/m...

I can't figure out why bc tool sometimes ignores the scale option. Here is an example: > echo 'scale=2; 2.777 - 1.4744' | bc 1.3026 Expected result is: 1.30 Additional information: > ...

I've the following CSV file's: 2012-07-12 15:30:09; 353.2 2012-07-12 15:45:08; 347.4 2012-07-12 16:00:08; 197.6 2012-07-12 16:15:08; 308.2 2012-07-12 16:30:09; 352.6 What I want to do is modify ...

I need 'bc' to divide a number and give me not only the floor but also the remainder. For instance 'bc' gives me '2' if I do '5/2'. I'd really want something like '2.5' Maybe this isn't even possi...

I have a problem with a character. I think it's a conversion problem between dos and unix. I have a variable that is a float value. When I print it with the echo command i get: 0.495959 B...

in my app I'm using the sha256 of the issuer Name (x509CertImpl.getIssuerDN().getName()) and the certificate serial number to uniquely identify a certificate, but now I have realized that other imp...

I'm reading about the idea of Bounded Contexts in DDD, and I'm starting to realize that I don't have a clear understanding of exactly what a Model looks like in practice. (I might not even know exa...

I am currently developing a client-server program, the client in Java/C and server in C. I have to transport cryptographic data(like the client should pass data to Server to encrypt/decrypt, comput...

I have a calculation on a Linux shell, something like this echo "scale=4;3*2.5" |bc which gives me an result, now I like to pipe the result of this calculation into an Variable so that I...

Is there some way I could make decimal.Decimal the default type for all numerical values in Python? I would like to be able to use Python in a manner similar to the bc and dc programs without havin...

I'm trying to write a bash script and I needed to do some floating point math. Basically I want to do something like this: NUM=$(echo "scale=25;$1/10" | bc) if [ $? -ne 0 ] then echo bad fi The ...