I added an example to the --terse entry in the manual. Debian should
close this bug.
On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 07:55:59AM -0500, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Ah ha!
> You see the batch job user scours the man page, and only finds:
>
>
>-1, --one-line
> Give only one line of
> 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
Ah ha!
You see the batch job user scours the man page, and only finds:
-1, --one-line
Give only one line of output (the forward conversion); do not
print the reverse conversion. If a reciprocal conversion is
performed, then units will
On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 04:41:46AM -0500, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Here we see the "d" items are mixed with the "m" items,
> but the "m" isn't shown:
> set 42.1527288 -87.8284360 42.1817060 -87.8275970
> geod +ellps=GRS80 -I < $@
> EOF
> 1d14'1.178" -178d45'56.794" 3219.433
>
> But you are right,
Here we see the "d" items are mixed with the "m" items,
but the "m" isn't shown:
set 42.1527288 -87.8284360 42.1817060 -87.8275970
geod +ellps=GRS80 -I <
On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 04:24:08AM -0500, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> I am just saying that some commands,
> like
>
> set 42.1527288 -87.8284360 42.1817060 -87.8275970
> geod +ellps=GRS80 -a -p -f %.6f -F %.4f -I +units=us-ft < $@
> EOF
> 42.152729 -87.828436 42.181706 -87.827597 1.233661 181.234224
I am just saying that some commands,
like
set 42.1527288 -87.8284360 42.1817060 -87.8275970
geod +ellps=GRS80 -a -p -f %.6f -F %.4f -I +units=us-ft <
The proposed option gives invalid/incorrect results. The value of 1
mile is not in fact 1609.334---the "m" is an essential part of the
result. If you want the bare number you can do
factor=$(units --terse 1mi m)
If you don't know what the unit to convert to is---"m" in this
case---then you
Package: units
Version: 2.22-2
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: adri...@gnu.org
Offer a way to just print the numbers, not also the units.
Currently one must do:
set $(units --terse 1mi)
echo $1
1609.344
So maybe have a units --just-the-numbers, when combined with --terse,
would print just the
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