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Especially with OS X, /bin/bash is a very old version of bash. Using /usr/bin/env bash, we can fetch the user's preferred version (for example, I used brew to install an up-to-date version).

Although gzip is properly priced, it makes sense to also charge for gunzip. Thank you for this helpful tool!

command usage   cost
------- -----   ----
basename    54  $.54
cat 89  $.89
gzip    1   $.01
ls  19  $.19
mkdir   65  $.65
pricing.sh  2   $.02
sort    2   $.02
uname   1   $.01
uniq    2   $.02
------- -----   ----
Total   235 $2.35

When I try to do cat --pricing I get:

bin/gnu-pricing: line 37: -2: substring expression < 0
bin/gnu-pricing: line 47: -2: substring expression < 0

I'm using GNU bash, version 4.3.33(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin14.1.0).

The idea is kinda cool. But the pricing seems not optimal.

1 ) Compare pricing to windows cost on Amazon EC2 per hour.
Use uptime mult per linux usage houre rate at 1/1000 of M$.
Use tuptime for total uptime.

2 ) Per application :
Parse https://www.gnu.org/manual/blurbs.html and look at packages installed in system. Price per install at 0.05$.
Parse all those packages to locate the binary and use that list to look in history. Price at 0.0001$ per usage.

That should give a more realistic base pricing.
Add a support GNU multiplying ratio of :

1X = Lame
5X = Poor student
50X = Graduated student
150X = Wealthy geek
5000X = CEO of a small company
500000X = CEO of medium company
50000000X = CEO of large company

Remember that FreeBSD got 1M from Jan Koum, the CEO and co-founder of the WhatsApp.

Any way, nice idea this app :)

Hello,

there is a bug with arguments containing spaces not correctly passed to the real binary:

$ mv Downloads/carnet\ pl\ sout.pdf /media/mmcblk0p1
mv: cannot stat ‘Downloads/carnet’: No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat ‘pl’: No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat ‘sout.pdf’: No such file or directory

it can be fixed by changed the last line of pricing.sh to

$THISCMD "$@"

or better

exec $THISCMD "$@"

Dear diagify,

the GNU philosophy says about "sharing computing across world". I think you should look in your dictionary (or Wiktionary if you don't have one) and check word "Foundation". Please mention that a foundation is usually non-profit.

The idea to donate the FSF is great. I'll donate it when I'll get a credit card.

Hope your project grows,
Jakub

Please advise, major bug.