If you've ever used a spreadsheet, you've probably used or seen functions for doing date math—in other words, taking one date and adding some number of days or months to it to get a new date, or ...

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Linux provides quite a few commands that let you do math on the command line. Which is best depends on the kind of math that you’re doing and the precision that you’re expecting. This post covers five ...

Can you do math on the Linux command line? You sure can! In fact, there are quite a few commands that can make the process easy and some you might even find interesting. Let’s look at some very useful ...

In part II of this series of articles on doing date math from the command line we want to try to solve a problem we noted in part I: passing the date command a date specification something like "the ...