Installing calc.pl under OS X
I’ve written a how-to article for installing the Astronomy-aware Unix Calculator under OS X. This has become one of my standard installs for any new OS X set-up, whether or not the end-user ever uses it. Having such a powerful command-line calculator is invaluable.
Click here for Installing calc.pl under Mac OS X.
Update: One thing I’ve found incredibly useful since I wrote that article is mapping the ‘calc’ command to an even more-efficient simple ‘?’ character. So instead of:
alias calc=’/Users/bob/Documents/utilityscripts/calc.pl’
I instead have:
alias ?=’/Users/bob/Documents/utilityscripts/calc.pl’
which allows me to type:
Sagarmatha:~ chris$ ? 6*6
at the command line and get “36″ as a result.