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Update to Wicked Cool Shell Script #62: define.sh

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...

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How do I strip leading zeroes for math in a shell script?

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...

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