This is regarding script #62 (define a word): Looks like WordNet has changed their online version again and I tried the following replacement for the url= http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s= But the script doesn't return anything but goes back to the prompt. I tried the url with a word in lynx and I got the source. Could you push me in a general direction?...

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I have a file containing lines of data that are amounts padded with leading zeros, similar to the snip below.   0000000004   0000000016   0000000012   0000000008 Using a shell script, how can I add up a column of numbers contained in lines when BASH interprets the numbers as octal when I do in-line math?...

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