I have just joined the list, so I thought to say hello. I am retired and I use Linux only, Xubuntu 16.04. I have used bash as my shell up to now, but decided to look elsewhere. My main problem is that bash arithmetic uses integers only. I know there are ways round this using bc, but it is a bit of a pain.
I have looked at zsh but did not get on with it at all. Blame me. Then I came across Fish and so far am well impressed. Floating point numbers are fine for addition, subtraction and multiplication. As ever it is division, and square roots, which can cause a problem. Either you get no decimal places or too many. However I have found a way round that, using bc and the scale parameter. So now I can work with division and square roots and get as many, or as few, decimal places as I need. Great. So hello to all members, and thanks for all the hard work done with the Fish shell. Best regards, Neil ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
