Comment by copperx
11 years ago
I didn't know about the units program. Is there any resource out there that lists these little *nix utility programs?
11 years ago
I didn't know about the units program. Is there any resource out there that lists these little *nix utility programs?
That's the thing about unix-like systems. No matter how much you have learned there's always some command you don't know.
paste was my most recent "holy shit this saves so much time" discovery. I blame it on the not quite intuitive name.
What do you use it for?
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Unless `units` doesn't happen to be installed by default, which is the case at least for Arch Linux.
Though it doesn't contain `units` either, here's a Wikipedia list of the standardized (IEEE 1003.1-2008) unix commands. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unix_commands
units(1) was in V7, and systems that aren't a superset of V7 are objectively wrong.
Debian same here.
info coreutils is a great place to start.
units is nice, but there isn't much help, and the syntax isn't always easy to remember. It was fun to play with for a while, but wolframalpha.com is better.