Re: Does execline natively do arithmetic and branching

2019-12-19 Thread Colin Booth
On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 08:03:17AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm messing around with execline, in the hopes that in long tight loops > it can be faster than /bin/sh. Now I want to do incrementing and other > add/subtract. Is there any kind of native way, or do I need to backtick >

Does execline natively do arithmetic and branching

2019-12-19 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I'm messing around with execline, in the hopes that in long tight loops it can be faster than /bin/sh. Now I want to do incrementing and other add/subtract. Is there any kind of native way, or do I need to backtick dc? Second question: Is there a way to find out whether a variable is