Comment by FractalHQ
3 years ago
What’s bc? Is it Bit Counter? I just skimmed the website and gh readme looking for a definition of BC, and I’m still unsure. Only clue I found is that it has something to do with calculators….
3 years ago
What’s bc? Is it Bit Counter? I just skimmed the website and gh readme looking for a definition of BC, and I’m still unsure. Only clue I found is that it has something to do with calculators….
GNU `bc` is a command-line arbitrary-precision calculator language [1]. It seems the parent comment's author implemented an alternative version that is now shipping in macOS, presumably because Apple doesn't like the GNU licenses.
[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/bc/manual/html_mono/bc.html
bc is a standard utility on POSIX systems. It's kind of expected that people know about it, like it's expected they know about awk or grep.
bc is a little less known, though.
bc is a staple in my cli work! Thank you for bc!
You're welcome!
I can't resist, because this is the perfect opportunity... RTFM