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bc and default setup #commandline

🕥︎ - 2005-12-19

After being annoyed with the fact that I had to type "scale=10" or similar every time I started bc(1), for quite a while, I finally looked at the source and made a custom package with the default being 10 (instead of 0).

Because sister dc(1) does explicitly handle a ~/.dcrc file, I looked a little closer, and realized that creating a ~/.bcrc and setting the environment variable BC_ENV_ARGS to "/home/asjo/.bcrc" works! No patching needed after all.

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