Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
> Is there a calculator for Linux (Suse 6.3) for the shell available ? (no
> X)

Linux is the operating system of simple tools to get wonderful results combining them. For a calculator with traditional (infix) notation, try command bc with option -l (bc -l). You'll be put in interactive mode, where (surprisingly enough), 4*4 yields 16 and so on.

You can even have a shell alias like Debian's Spanish localization:

calculator () {
    echo $* | bc -l
}

So you can exec "calculator 4*4" from the shell prompt, and get the result in your stdout.

Jose Luis Domingo Lopez