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This manual describes the units
command for units conversion and
how you can use it as a powerful scientific calculator that keeps
track of units.
This is Edition 2.11 of The Units Conversion Manual
for units
Version 2.12.
• Overview: | What does units do?
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• Interactive Use: | How to use units .
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• Command Line Use: | How to use units non-interactively.
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• Unit Definitions: | What units are defined? | |
• Unit Expressions: | Forming compound units. | |
• Nonlinear Conversions: | Nonlinear unit conversions (e.g., temperature). | |
• Unit Lists: | Conversion to sums of units (e.g., feet and inches). | |
• Logging Calculations: | Logging conversions and calculations in a file. | |
• Invoking Units: | Command line options. | |
• Defining Your Own Units: | Adding your own unit definitions | |
• Numeric Output Format: | How to change the output format | |
• Localization: | How to define and use regional unit names. | |
• Environment Vars: | Environment variables used by units .
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• Data Files: | Descriptions and locations of units data files. | |
• Unicode Support: | Support for Unicode (UTF-8). | |
• Readline Support: | Unit name completion and editing. | |
• Currency: | Updating currency exchange rates. | |
• Database Syntax: | Summary of database command syntax. | |
• GNU Free Documentation License: | License. | |
• Index: | General index. |