Easy unit conversion in the CLI
Have you ever been at a command line and just had to know how many leagues were in 10 nanometers? Well now you can find out easily! Enter the
1 | units |
command:
1 | units |
takes the first argument and converts it into the second. The second line of output is the inverse of the conversion. If you just put the units without a number, it prints the actual conversion factor:
You can perform conversion between a wide range of units, some requiring a slightly different syntax, such as temperature:
If you just call
1 | units |
, it will query you for what you want to do:
Thanks to cmdlin.org for sharing this awesome command!
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December 5, 2008 - 8:25 PM
