On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 03:50:25PM -0400, Stephen Gilbert wrote:
> I know I saw something like this in the past I just can't find it. Anyone got any
> ideas?
>
> perl -e 'print eval { @ARGV }, "\n"' 5 + 5
>
> it should be able to take any perl arithmetic operator. so:
>
> perl -e 'print eval { @ARGV }, "\n"' 840928302840982 / 74098374
>
> or
>
> perl -e 'print eval { @ARGV }, "\n"' 79872593 * 67
>
> This code does not work, but I'm sure there is something simple, I know I've seen it.
Try:
perl -le 'print eval "@ARGV"' 5 + 5
You'll need to be careful with shell metacharacters:
perl -le 'print eval "@ARGV"' '79872593 * 67'
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