Yann Büchau :python: on Nostr: Let's all take a moment to appreciate how ridiculously complicated it is to just sum ...
Let's all take a moment to appreciate how ridiculously complicated it is to just sum up numbers coming into STDIN on the shell.
How does #coreutils / #moreutils not have something for this? (or does it? 🤔)
Happy to hear suggestions for a multitool for math in the shell.
#shell #bash #cli
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