> But in fact, --terse should say:
>
> -t, --terse
> Print only a single conversion factor. This option can be used
> when calling units from another program so that the output is
> easy to parse. This option has the combined effect of these op‐
> tions: ‘--strict’ ‘--quiet’ ‘--one-line’ ‘--compact’. When
> combined with ‘--version’ it produces a display showing only the
> program name and version number. And here we even strip
> the units off:
>
> $ units --terse mile meters
> 1609.344
I think you're not fully understanding what's going on. There is
no unit to "strip off". If you don't use --terse, this is what happens:
adrian> units mile meters
* 1609.344
/ 0.00062137119
Note that no unit appears. You get the other clutter, but no units,
because conversions DO NOT HAVE UNITS.
Definitions have units. You were trying to use a definition when you
should have been using a conversion. In any case some additional
explanation and examples won't hurt, so I'll try to elaborate on this
in the manual.
For definitions, actually, the output can be even more cluttered:
adrian> units --terse mile
5280 ft = 1609.344 m
