Unit conversion from zsh

Posted on 6 June, 2010 by chmouel

Quick conversion from shell :

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joris

You can do this more portable with awk
function kilo2pound() { echo $1 | awk ‘{printf “%.2f\n”,$1*2.20462262}’; }

Joris

http://www.chmouel.com/ chmouel

Yeah sure if you want to be portable but that spawn a process for nothing

Jverstry

More unit conversion rates can be obtained from http://www.convert-kit.com by entering values. Temperatures are more complicated (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_of_units_of_temperature). Implementation of these formulas can be verified by checking values at http://www.convert-kit.com/temperature.html.