Hi,
On 11/20/2009 04:58 PM, Vamsee Kanakala wrote:
If you have a browser open all the time like I do, you can do quite a
few conversions and calculations in google (ctrl+k on firefox, typing
calculation and hitting enter is a bit easier than opening terminal and
bc in this case). But if you insist on terminal, there's something I
learnt just today that's easier than bc - simply typing echo
$((123*123)) is faster :)
...or perhaps even the shorter "echo $[123*123]" :)
btw, about command completion, judging by this thread I think many might not
know about the existence of the package 'bash-completion' on most common
distros. Do a [yum|apt-get] install bash-completion and enjoy bash commandline
completion on steroids !(*)
cheers,
- steve
(*) for the curious and the cautious -- bash-completion complements the regular
<tab> completion feature of bash by 'intelligently' completing arguments, for
eg: only directories would show up after a 'cd<tab><tab>' and only pdf files
listed with a 'evince<tab><tab>'
--
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tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/
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