THthunderbong·Aug 21, 2021Submission
Bcal: CLI for Storage expression, unit conversion and address calculation
1 points · Open discussionjarun
bcal
C2016–2021
jarun / bcal
bcal
:1234: Bits, bytes and general-purpose calculator
2Distinct people
19Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
709GitHub stars
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:1234: Bits, bytes and general-purpose calculator
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 7 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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19 sourcesShow HN: bcal – Storage & general-purpose CLI calculator for programmers
18 points · Open discussionShow HN: Bcal – Storage and general-purpose calculator
1 points · Open discussionShow HN: bcal – storage and general-purpose calculator
2 points · Open discussionCLI utilities from jarun for daily use:
File manager: https://github.com/jarun/nnn
Google search: https://github.com/jarun/googler
DuckDuckGo search: https://github.com/jarun/ddgr
Bookmark manager: https://github.com/jarun/Buku
Multicore resize & rotate: https://github.com/jarun/imgp
Calculator: https://github.com/jarun/bcal
Date diff and timers: https://github.com/jarun/pdd
Kernel keylogger: https://github.com/jarun/keysniffer
The developer (https://github.com/jarun) writes cmdline utilities only. His tools are highly optimized for performance and integrates seamlessly with the DE. Most of them are available on popular distros and Homebrew.
In Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?Show HN: bcal – storage expression and general purpose calculator
1 points · Open discussionBcal v2.0 storage expression calculator released
1 points · Open discussionbcal v1.9 storage expression calculator gets REPL mode
2 points · Open discussionShow HN: bcal – storage expression calculator
1 points · Open discussionFeatures: https://github.com/jarun/bcal#features
In bcal storage conversion and expression calculator v1.8 releasedbcal storage conversion and expression calculator v1.8 released
1 points · Open discussionShow HN: bcal – storage conversions and calculations
1 points · Open discussionbcal storage calculator 1.7 released
1 points · Open discussion## What's in?
- Evaluate storage arithmetic expressions involving +, -, *, / (thanks @SampuZ)
- A minimal mode (option `-m`) to show result in bytes
- Assume byte if unit is omitted for a conversion
- A Python3 test framework with multiple test cases
- Several fixes and additional sanity checks on input
Homepage: https://github.com/jarun/bcal
Features: https://github.com/jarun/bcal#features
In bcal v1.6 – Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculationsbcal v1.6 – Byte CALculator for storage conversions and calculations
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