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Number crunching was once the domain of big mainframe computers hidden away in secure, air-conditioned rooms. Now, the computer on your desk (or even the one in your pocket) has more computing power than those old behemoths. The shell, with the help of external commands, can harness that power.
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© 2015 Chris F. A. Johnson and Jayant Varma
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Johnson, C.F.A., Varma, J. (2015). Chapter 5: Scripting by Numbers. In: Shell Scripting Recipes. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0220-3_5
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