Am Montag 23 Juli 2018 schrieb Stefan Krusche: > Am Montag 23 Juli 2018 schrieb Zenaan Harkness: > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 03:04:41AM +0200, Stefan Krusche wrote: > > > Am Dienstag 17 Juli 2018 schrieb Zenaan Harkness: > > > > bc FTW - so quick, so handy > > > > > > > > First line I always run though is: > > > > scale=9 > > > > > > When you don't want to type this every time: > > > > > > $ cat ~/.bcrc > > > scale=3 > > > > OK, so I created ~/.bcrc, setting scale to 20: > > > > $ cat ~/.bcrc > > scale=20 > > > > BUT, when I run bc, I get: > > > > $ bc > > bc 1.06.95 > > Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006 Free Software > > Foundation, Inc. > > This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > > For details type `warranty'. > > scale > > 0 > > ^D > > > > What am I doing wrong here?
The problem is probably solved with Curt's and Greg's answers, but still to answer your question: ~/.bcrc is not a default config file for bc (sorry, didn't think about having it created on my own when I wrote my previous post) and is only read if you have "BC_ENV_ARGS=~/.bcrc" in your environment or as an argument to bc on the command line. Kind regards, Stefan
