Re: Favourite One-liners?

I always use Perl when I need to do some calculation.

$ perl -le 'print <arithmetic expression here>'
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The debugger is handy for iterative calculations:

$ perl -de0
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Update - tip: Be careful with constructs like:

print (5 + 4) * 3;
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This is equivalent to (print 5 + 4) * 3, probably not what you want.

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Re^2: Favourite One-liners? by kaif (Friar) on Jun 28, 2005 at 14:21 UTC
My most common one-liner, which accomplishes the "arithmetic evaluation" goal, is `perl -ple'$_="> ".eval'` (Déjà vu?)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Favourite One-liners? by tlm (Prior) on Jul 02, 2005 at 05:07 UTC
Other than the inherent awesomeness of producing a Perl REPL in under 25 characters, I don't see why one would prefer this one-liner to the even shorter `perl -de1` [download] True, with the debugger one has to suffer the aggravation of having to prepend `p` or `x` to expressions if one wants to see the evaluated output, but in return one gets plenty of features like (off the top of my head): Readline with history (this one alone saves so much typing that it more than compensates for having to type those extra `p`'s and `x`'s); The option of paged output; The Joy of x, including not only pretty printing of complex data structures (with optional paging), but also the ability to specify the depth the pretty-printing; the lowliest monk	[reply] [d/l] [select]