freebsd-dev/usr.bin/units
Mateusz Piotrowski 4a3b87e295 units(1): Refactor the manual page and update usage information
Changes to units.1:

- Change the description to a more descriptive "conversion calculator".
- Sort options.
- Split the description into sections to make it easier to navigate the
  manual page.
- Improve the description of various options.
- Document the default value of the output format.
- Use more mdoc macros for better readability.
- Document the behavior of the PATH environmental variable.
- Improve examples.
- Add sections: EXIT STATUS, DIAGNOSTICS, and HISTORY.
- Document that units(1) cannot convert negative values and it handles long
  unit lists poorly.
- Update the documentation of the -V flag to match the implementation.
  units(1) prints its version and the units data file instead of its
  version and usage information.

Changes to units.c:

- Update usage information.
- Sort longopts elements.

This commit does not attempts to change the current behavior of units(1).
What's left to do is probably defining a better versioning (at the moment
units(1) always reports "FreeBSD units" as its version) and changing the
behavior of the -V flag to only print version.

Reviewed by:	allanjude (earlier version), bcr
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18977
2020-02-03 15:22:46 +00:00
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tests
definitions.units Update URLs in usr.bin 2017-10-29 08:03:21 +00:00
Makefile Add HAS_TESTS to all Makefiles that are currently using the 2017-08-02 08:50:42 +00:00
Makefile.depend DIRDEPS_BUILD: Update dependencies. 2017-10-31 00:07:04 +00:00
README
units.1 units(1): Refactor the manual page and update usage information 2020-02-03 15:22:46 +00:00
units.c units(1): Refactor the manual page and update usage information 2020-02-03 15:22:46 +00:00

# $FreeBSD$

This is a program which I wrote as a clone of the UNIX 'units'
command.  I threw it together in a couple days, but it seems to work,
with some restrictions.  I have tested it under DOS with Borland C and
Ultrix 4.2, and SunOS 4.1.  

This program differs from the unix units program in the following
ways:
   it can gracefully handle exponents larger than 9 in output
   it uses 'e' to denote exponentiation in numbers
   prefixes are listed in the units file
   it tries both -s and -es plurals
   it allows use of * for multiply and ^ for exponentiation in the input
   the output format is somewhat different

Adrian Mariano (adrian@cam.cornell.edu or mariano@geom.umn.edu)