Proposal: Optional libsafe add-on?

[Johannes Erdfelt]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004, Chuck Wolber <chuckw at quantumlinux.com> wrote:
> > 1) How important is cal to servers?  In all of my experience I didn't
> > even know it existed until now... unless is it used in some system
> > scripts or something?
> 
> How else do you do date math in your shell scripts?

farley:~% echo $((1+2))
3
farley:~% echo $((21/7))
3

I've never used it personally either. *shrug*

Not to say I think it should be dropped or kept either way, just
pointing out you can do math in shells :)

JE