I am missing the CLI program bc in the base system. It’s quite useful to have an option to calculate things on the command line. Something like find /mnt/tank -iname '*.mkv' -o -iname '*.mp4' -ls | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 8 | paste -sd + | bc or find /mnt/tank -iname '*.mkv' -o -iname '*.mp4' -pri…

Feature Request here, awaiting more votes: [image] Include `bc` in SCALE Feature Requests Problem/Justification bc is included in core and is required to do more complex math in scripts such as TrueNAS-Report . Impact Minimal impact For those that do not need a command …

I’m fully with you to have enough cli basics (bsd+extra+gnu) as not everything is done in some web thingie. Btw, (i hope this doesn’t make bc it less important *g*) find /mnt/p0/media/movies -iname '*.mkv' -o -iname '*.mp4' -print0 | xargs -0 du -sch |tail -n 1 find /mnt/p0/media/movies -iname '*…

Can we get one more CLI program into the base system? (bc)

TrueNAS General

etorix November 29, 2024, 11:36am 2

Feature Request here, awaiting more votes:

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Can we get one more CLI program into the base system? (bc)

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